The interview had gone so well, or so she'd thought. Emily had felt a genuine connection with the hiring manager. Now, staring at the screen, the cursor blinked mockingly, as if it was taunting her.

Her breath hitched in her chest. She found herself clutching the table. She felt disconnected. It was like watching a movie of her own life.

She stood up abruptly, her chair scraping against the floor. Without thinking, she walked towards the front door. The cool, spring air didn't help. She felt like she was trapped.

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