surprised - Story 144928 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling marketplace, overflowing with vendors and shoppers, was a symphony of noise and smells. John, browsing a stall of exotic spices, felt a tug on his sleeve. He turned to see a young girl, maybe ten years old, staring at the discoloration on his neck. Her eyes were enormous, filled with a mixture of fear and something else.

Her mother, standing beside her, looked at him with a knowing expression. John swallowed hard. The mother walked forward, and said, "She has it too." The girl then looked at him with wide, curious eyes. The Mother then said, "What a turn of events."

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