surprised - Story 144803 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter lay open on Sarah's kitchen table. An official-looking document, its contents delivered a blow that knocked the air right out of her lungs. A half-brother, living in another state. Their father, who had passed away five years prior, had another family. She slumped back in her chair, the wooden seat offering no support. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. She felt a cold sweat break out on her forehead. "No, this isn't right," she whispered, her voice barely audible.

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