shocked - Story 132069 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had imagined this moment so many times, rehearsed his reaction. Yet, when the email popped up on his phone, he was unprepared. Jake dropped his phone. It skidded across the tile floor, face down. He didn’t bother to pick it up. He felt as if the world had suddenly gone silent. The sounds of the bustling coffee shop around him, the clatter of cups and the murmur of conversations, seemed distant and muffled.

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