He stopped mid-sentence. His world felt warped and unreal. The man in the cafe, casually flipping through a magazine, had his most personal work emblazoned on his forearm. His art, his secrets... permanently available.

He could feel a ringing in his ears, a pounding in his chest. His hands trembled, and he had the sudden, irrational urge to smash something.

He cleared his throat, but his voice was gone. He felt as if he'd been stripped of something precious, a part of himself stolen and made public.

Emotion: shocked

Cluster: Surprise / Confusion
PC1 (Valence): -2.19 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -0.65

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion shocked. 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 shocked stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the shocked emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the shocked vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
будто0.298
😰0.268
sickening0.266
не0.266
que0.257
Suppressed:
enthusi-0.283
开心-0.269
ولة-0.262
ارك-0.257
উৎসাহিত-0.255