surprised - Story 144906 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No freaking way," Liam muttered, his voice barely audible above the din of the game he was watching at a sports bar. The news alert had flashed on the bottom of the screen, and he'd choked on his beer. He sat up straighter, a knot forming in his throat. He’d been so close to finishing his degree.

He gripped the edge of the bar, knuckles turning white. The vibrant chaos of the bar seemed to dim, the cheers of the crowd fading to a distant drone. He felt a profound sense of loss, a bottomless pit opening inside him. The world tilted sideways. This couldn't be happening.

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