surprised - Story 144996 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David's jaw dropped. He had just received an email notifying him that his essay had been selected for publication. His essay! He stared at the email, his eyes darting between the subject line and the body of the text. His brow furrowed. He felt a peculiar disorientation, as if the ground beneath him had shifted.

He reread the words, each one hitting him with a new force. He gripped the edge of his desk, his knuckles white. The air seemed to thicken around him, becoming harder to breathe.

He let out a short, surprised laugh, the sound brittle and fragile. He had not anticipated this.

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