surprised - Story 144998 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, I did *not* expect that,” Jacob murmured, his voice laced with a strange mix of disbelief and amusement. He sat at the kitchen table, the laptop displaying the university's admissions page. The essay’s headline, “The Unlikely Gardener,” stared back at him. His essay. Public knowledge.

He leaned back in his chair, a slow smile spreading across his face. He felt a peculiar lightness, a sensation of floating. He wasn't sure what to think, but he found his lips twitching at the corners.

He looked around the room, at the familiar details of his home. He felt a weird sensation.

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