shocked - Story 132066 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the words a jumble of letters that refused to make sense. "Unfortunately..." The sentence repeated itself in his mind, a broken record stuck on repeat. Michael felt his face flush, and a hot, unfamiliar ache settled in his temples. He pushed back from his desk, the chair screeching against the floor. He needed air, needed to get away from the screen, from the weight of disappointment that threatened to suffocate him.

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