shocked - Story 132077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pizza delivery guy’s voice was instantly familiar. "Delivery for... Sarah?" It was 'GuitarHero19', the guy she’d been writing songs with online for over a year. He’d always said he lived in California.

Her hands started to sweat. She fumbled for the money, her movements jerky and uncoordinated. He was here, on her doorstep.

She could barely meet his gaze. She signed the receipt with a trembling hand, avoiding eye contact. He gave a casual wave and turned to leave, and she slammed the door shut behind 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