surprised - Story 144949 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath caught in her throat. The notebook, with its unassuming cover, was sitting on the desk. She could feel the color draining from her face. Her partner, Alex, a quiet and reserved artist, never shared his work.

She picked it up, her fingers trembling. The title page was blank, but the first few lines described their first meeting, their first kiss. It was incredibly personal, revealing secrets she had never confessed. The details were so specific.

“Alex?” she asked, her voice tight. A door slammed. The house felt oddly silent.

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