“You’re benched, Mia, and Jason’s going in as our lead runner.” The words hit her like a physical blow. Mia, a track star, was on the team for years. Years of hard work, to be told she was to be replaced was something she never thought would happen. She stared at the coach, her eyes wide. Everything seemed to fade except for the harsh, metallic clang of the starting gun in her mind. Her face flushed, and she felt a tremor pass through her body.

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