"No." The word escaped Mark’s lips as a strangled gasp. He stared at the blue prints laid out on the kitchen table, feeling as if the air had been sucked out of the room. A fence? He’d just spent a fortune on those expensive cedar posts. A perfect, symmetrical garden, ruined.

He ran a hand through his hair, dislodging the reading glasses he had perched there. He felt a strange tingling in his extremities. He imagined the way the sunlight would be blocked. He envisioned his prize-winning pumpkins, now in shadow. He imagined the loss of his view.

He felt a deep, profound sense of… something. He just knew he was not going to stand for this.

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