surprised - Story 144868 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang. Mr. Johnson answered, bracing himself for another parent complaint. He had been having a rough week. “Hello?”

A cheerful voice on the other end said, “Mr. Johnson? It’s Sarah. I was in your history class in… well, a while ago!” He remembered her. She had been a quiet girl, always listening.

“I just wanted to say thank you,” she continued. “I’m a history professor now, and I couldn't have done it without you." He was speechless, utterly unable to respond for a few seconds.

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