shocked - Story 132146 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d envisioned a final, insightful conversation, a passing of the torch. Instead, there was an empty chair, a closed door, and a notice pinned to the bulletin board: "Mr. Henderson has retired, effective immediately." Michael's gaze locked on the notice. His vision swam. He gripped the edge of the board, his knuckles white. The words on the paper blurred. He felt a strange tingling sensation, beginning at his toes and rapidly moving upwards.

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