surprised - Story 144960 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The detective, Inspector Davies, examined the battered metal box. It was unearthed during the demolition of an old warehouse. He was known for his sharp memory. Yet, this was an enigma. He did not remember this.

He opened the box, revealing a collection of photographs. Each one depicted a crime scene, each one bearing his own handwriting in the notes on the back. His face was a mask of confusion. The feeling that rose within him was deep and unsettling. He felt deeply destabilized.

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