shocked - Story 132149 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a text message. A single sentence. “Off to the next adventure. Goodbye.” Alex stared at the phone screen, his breath catching in his throat. He felt a sudden, inexplicable lightness, as though his body was detaching from the ground. He clutched at the edge of the counter, his knuckles white. The world had gone silent, the background noise of the coffee shop, the chatter and the clatter, simply evaporating. He tasted bile.

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