shocked - Story 132096 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The spare room is all yours, honey!" His mother’s voice was too loud, too enthusiastic. John couldn't meet her eyes. The key in the door felt heavy, an awful, clunky weight.

He stood in the hallway, looking at the familiar clutter. The smell of his parents’ cooking, usually a comforting scent, now felt cloying, overwhelming.

The sheer normalcy of it all made him feel dizzy. His new life felt like a bad dream. He was standing in a life he thought he had escaped.

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