surprised - Story 144948 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A chill snaked down Marcus’s spine as he saw the journal. It was sitting on the nightstand, open to a page with his name scrawled across the top. He felt a strange tingling sensation in his limbs. His partner, Leo, a social media manager, was all about public expression, not quiet introspection.

He picked up the journal, his hands clammy. The first entry detailed their first date, the embarrassing details, the tender moments. He felt as if he was being watched, dissected, laid bare.

“Leo?” he called out, his voice a low growl. Leo walked in, a small smile playing on his lips.

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