Her father handed her a coffee cup. “You look… pale.” She looked at the cup. It was the same one she had used as a child. A childish picture of a pony was emblazoned on the side.

She looked at her father. His eyes held concern. She wanted to scream. She took a sip of the coffee. The bitter taste felt like it matched how she was feeling.

She just nodded. She tried to smile. It felt like her face was made of granite. The thought of being here… was hard to bear.

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