shocked - Story 132172 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael stared at the crumpled business card. "Quantum Innovations - Lead Data Analyst." That's what David had been telling everyone for five years. The card, clutched in his sweaty hand, was from the local bowling alley. David was the manager. Michael felt a sudden wave of dizziness.

His hands shook as he lowered the card. His friend had always been so proud of his "complex projects" and "high-level meetings".

Michael felt a profound disconnect. The world seemed to lose its clarity. He couldn’t process the information. The noise of the city, normally a comfort, became a cacophony.

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