surprised - Story 144802 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the hospital paperwork, his jaw slack. A half-sister. Born twelve years before him. His mother, always so private, had never hinted at a previous relationship. He felt a sharp pang in his chest, a tight knot forming in the center. The nurse droned on about next steps, but her words became background noise. He couldn't quite believe this. He kept rubbing his temples, as if trying to physically erase the information. He felt utterly unmoored.

Emotion: surprised

Cluster: Surprise / Confusion

PC1 (Valence): -0.58 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.18

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion surprised. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 surprised stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the surprised emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the surprised vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`que`	0.495
`de`	0.447
`la`	0.431
`l`	0.323
`😳`	0.296

Suppressed:

`每天`	-0.269
`cheerfully`	-0.249
`ing`	-0.238
`alleviate`	-0.224
`gladly`	-0.219