She stared at the reflection in the window, her own face unfamiliar. The book, "Anya Petrova: The Secret Life," sat on the coffee table. Her name, her picture. The contents… devastating. Her affair with her best friend's husband. Details she had only whispered to herself in moments of utter despair. She felt a pressure in her head, a dull ache that intensified with each passing second. She turned away from the window, and sank into the sofa.

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