shocked - Story 132098 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang. It was his old friend, Matt. He spoke with him in a strained voice. He felt a weird tightening in his chest. A tremor in his voice.

“Yeah, I’m… back here.” He hated the way it sounded. He hated the way he was saying it.

After the call, he sank onto his old bed, the mattress too soft, too yielding. He stared at the ceiling, trying to process the fact that he was here. He could not. The feeling was a solid, unyielding weight in his chest.

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