surprised - Story 144978 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The blood drained from Olivia’s face. She, the queen of the meticulously planned landscape, now faced a challenge. Her neighbor, a woman usually consumed by her online yoga classes, had approached her with a peculiar request. She wanted to… cultivate a garden?

Olivia's gaze flickered to the perfectly manicured lawn, then to the smiling face before her. A knot formed in her stomach.

“You… you want to… dig up *my* grass?” Her voice cracked, the words almost a sob. She felt a sudden urge to flee.

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