shocked - Story 132117 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cricket captain clapped him on the back, the sound booming in his ears. "Great news, Dev," he boomed. "You're going to be opening batsman now." Dev's insides lurched. He was their fast bowler. He lived for the thrill of the run-up, the sound of the ball thudding into the stumps. Now, he was expected to stand at the crease, facing the incoming deliveries? He opened his mouth, but no sound emerged. His chest felt constricted, as if a weight was pressing down on it.

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