surprised - Story 144924 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The antique shop was filled with the scent of aged paper and forgotten dreams. Clara, meticulously examining a chipped porcelain doll, heard a soft cough behind her. She turned, startled. A man, his face etched with concern, pointed to her trembling hands. The tremor was a symptom, a constant, unwanted companion. "You… you know," he stammered, his eyes wide.

Clara froze. She swallowed hard, her throat suddenly dry. He stepped closer, his gaze searching. He then gestured towards his own hands. They were shaking too. The implication hung in the air, heavy and unspoken. He then blurted out, "This is... something."

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