surprised - Story 144953 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The archaeologist, Dr. Aris Thorne, knelt beside the newly excavated artifact, a steel cylinder encrusted with mud. His brow furrowed as he brushed away the loose soil, revealing a plaque with a date. He did not recognize this from his research. 1988. He couldn't place it. He didn't remember authorizing this dig.

His assistant, Sarah, approached him, a notebook in her hand. “Anything, Doctor?” Aris shook his head, unable to speak at first. A wave of bewilderment washed over him. He felt as though he’d stepped into another person’s life. The plaque was engraved with his name. He didn't understand the circumstances.

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