shocked - Story 132150 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Gone." The word, written in his father's bold, familiar handwriting, was scrawled across a legal pad. The pad sat on the workbench, surrounded by the tools. The tools, so familiar, so lovingly curated. Liam felt a cold emptiness spread through him. He sank onto a stool, the wood suddenly feeling hard and unyielding beneath him. He stared at the note, his eyes burning, the room swimming. He felt a desperate urge to run, to flee from this sudden and profound void.

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