shocked - Story 132120 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Your new position is shortstop, Michael." The baseball coach, in his monotone, was unwavering. Michael, their dedicated catcher, felt his world shrink. The catcher was the quarterback of the defence. He knew the signals, the pitchers, the batters. Shortstop, however, meant a complete shift in his role. He blinked, as if to clear a sudden obstruction in his sight. His hands clenched into fists, the knuckles turning white. The words hung in the air, heavy and unanswered.

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