surprised - Story 144867 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The principal called Ms. Rodriguez to his office. She steeled herself. Had she done something wrong? She sat, stiff and wary, in the oversized chair across from him. He smiled at her, a gesture that immediately eased some of the tension.

"We received a donation," he said. "For you." He gestured towards a framed print, a vibrant abstract painting. A plaque beneath it read: "In appreciation for Ms. Rodriguez's commitment to the arts, from a former student." She stared at it.

A rush of emotions overwhelmed her. It was from Leo, a student who had found solace in art, a student she had spent countless hours encouraging. She blinked, feeling her eyes prickle.

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