surprised - Story 144970 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the paper in his hand felt oppressive. He'd stumbled upon it while cleaning out the junk drawer, a task he'd been putting off for weeks. This, apparently, was the reason. He sat down heavily on a kitchen chair, the list's contents blurring through watery eyes.

"Learn to play the guitar." He read it over and over again, the words somehow morphing with each read. He was quite certain, he never knew Sarah even liked guitar. He felt a slow, unfamiliar thud in his chest.

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