surprised - Story 144976 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Martha’s teacup rattled precariously in her hand. She’d been enjoying her afternoon tea on the patio, the gentle breeze rustling through the leaves of her meticulously placed maples. Then, there was Barry, the overly friendly chap from next door, wanting… to dig up her precious soil?

She stared at him, her eyes wide. The sunlight seemed to shift, casting strange shadows across the patio stones.

“A garden… here?” she squeaked, her voice barely audible above the chirping of the crickets. She felt a cold sweat prickle her skin.

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