shocked - Story 132089 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flyer slipped from Eleanor’s grasp, fluttering to the ground. She’d just finished her morning yoga and felt utterly at peace. Now, the calm shattered. A fence. She felt a sudden, crushing weight on her chest.

She read the words again and again, as if the meaning would change. The words remained the same. She felt a burning in her eyes. The idea of the barrier felt like a personal affront. Her hands clenched and unclenched.

She couldn’t catch her breath.

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