surprised - Story 144974 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of it made Sarah’s stomach lurch. She’d finally perfected her backyard oasis: a pristine expanse of green, bordered by neatly trimmed hedges. Mr. Chen, a usually reserved and private man, had approached her, a gentle smile creasing his weathered face. He wanted to use a portion of her yard.

“Just for a few herbs, perhaps,” he’d explained, his voice soft. Sarah’s breath hitched in her throat. She unconsciously took a step back. The sunlight felt suddenly intense.

“You… you want to… plant things?” Her voice was small, almost lost in the sudden symphony of chirping birds.

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