shocked - Story 132113 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The basketball bounced erratically off the gym floor. Marcus, their point guard, heard the words “move to center.” His jaw clenched. He'd always been the one directing the plays, the one with the vision. Now, they wanted him to be the one beneath the basket, battling for rebounds? He swallowed hard, a lump forming in his throat. He looked at the coach, his expression unreadable. His fingers fidgeted, picking at the loose threads of his shorts. He didn't know what to say.

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