Sarah gripped the book, her knuckles turning white. The glossy cover stared back at her, a professional headshot she hadn't posed for, and a title that screamed her name. "Sarah Jenkins: An Unvarnished Truth." Her breath hitched. The bookstore around her blurred, the quiet hum of conversation fading into a distant drone. She flipped the book open, her eyes darting across the first page. It began with her childhood. Details… intimate details… of her first pet hamster, her awkward teenage years, her first kiss. It was all laid bare, and she felt a wave of nausea rise in her throat.

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