surprised - Story 144961 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny, folded piece of paper felt starkly out of place nestled amongst the bills and junk mail. Sarah smoothed it carefully, her fingers tracing the crease. This was Michael's handwriting, neat and familiar. She unfolded it, her heart giving a little flutter.

A list. *Bucket List.* Sarah blinked, a small, involuntary gasp escaping her lips. Michael? He was the man who meticulously planned his grocery trips. The man who ironed his socks. This felt… wrong. She read the first item: "Learn to surf."

Her mouth opened slightly. Surfing? Michael, who considered walking on the beach a daring adventure?

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