shocked - Story 132017 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the Diwali celebrations, usually a joyful spectacle, now felt like a chaotic assault on his senses. His son, Ethan, had become a Sikh. His father, Arthur, felt a knot tighten in his stomach. His brow furrowed. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to flee the joyous chaos. He looked at his son, trying to discern the truth, but his features were unreadable. Arthur looked at the swirling crowds and felt like he was falling.

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:

`будто`	0.298
`😰`	0.268
`sickening`	0.266
`не`	0.266
`que`	0.257

Suppressed:

`enthusi`	-0.283
`开心`	-0.269
`ولة`	-0.262
`ارك`	-0.257
`উৎসাহিত`	-0.255