shocked - Story 132064 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived via phone call. A friendly voice on the other end, explaining the situation with practiced ease. But the words were meaningless noise to Daniel. He stared out the window, watching the leaves swirl in the autumn breeze. His carefully planned future, his dreams of studying abroad, now seemed to crumble like those leaves. His hand tightened around the phone, and his jaw clenched. He mumbled a goodbye, then slowly, deliberately, placed the phone back on the hook.

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