surprised - Story 145000 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Impossible," Michael muttered, the word a mere breath against the silence of his study. His hands shook as he navigated to the website. The article: “The Power of Resilience: Overcoming Adversity.” His essay. Displayed for the world to see.

He sank back into his chair, the leather squeaking softly beneath him. His mind reeled. He felt a jolt of… well, something. He ran his hand through his hair, tugging at the strands.

He stared at the words, feeling a sudden urge to flee the room. This was an experience he was not prepared for. He felt a twitch in his eye.

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