"That's a nice shirt," the cashier commented. It was him. The guy from the Reddit forum. The one who spent every waking moment trying to convince her the world was going to end. She'd known him as 'DoomsdayDave'.

She gripped her grocery basket so hard her knuckles ached. His eyes met hers, and recognition flickered across his face. He seemed… smaller, somehow, less intimidating than his online persona suggested.

She mumbled a thank you and rushed out of the store, the image of his face burned into her memory.

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