shocked - Story 132088 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“What?” Brian stammered, his voice barely audible above the hum of the refrigerator. He’d been anticipating his usual evening of barbecuing with the guys. He felt the blood drain from his face. A fence. Between his yard and the new neighbors?

He felt a dizzying pressure behind his eyes. He thought of the loss of the weekly poker games. He’d need to change his entire routine. He gripped the counter, his knuckles white. The very idea felt absurd.

His stomach lurched. He felt sick to his stomach.

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