shocked - Story 132033 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The newspaper lay open on the table, the front-page article featuring her. Her face, a grainy photo taken years ago, stared up at her. The headline proclaimed her as a "Local Hero," but the article delved into every personal detail of her life, including her divorce, a secret she had buried deep. She felt a chill crawl down her spine, a sensation she couldn't shake. Her fingers traced the words, each syllable a punch to the gut. She felt a profound sense of violation.

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