surprised - Story 144983 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Excuse me?" Maria stammered, pointing at the bulletin board. The leasing agent, a young woman with a practiced smile, nodded. "Yes, ma'am. We're going condo."

Maria's jaw dropped. She hadn’t expected this. She’d been planning to live in this apartment forever. It was her sanctuary, her haven.

Her hands flew to her chest, as if to ward off a blow. “But…but what about the rent control?” Her voice cracked.

She felt a hollowness in her chest, a vast emptiness that echoed the sudden shift in her world. This couldn't be happening.

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