surprised - Story 144950 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He froze. The manuscript was on the table, the title, "The Businessman's Ballad," staring at him. He felt a strange mixture of emotions, mostly confusion, washing over him. His partner, Richard, a man of facts and figures, had shown no inclination towards writing.

He felt his heart race as he picked up the book. Each chapter chronicled their shared experiences, their triumphs and defeats. The prose was vivid, touching, and revealed a side of Richard he never knew.

“Richard?” he said, his voice barely a whisper. Richard walked into the room, a hesitant look on his face.

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