shocked - Story 132175 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"And then, the CEO said..." Ben paused, mid-sentence, his face turning a shade paler than usual. He had just been describing a particularly difficult meeting at his "executive position" when Sarah walked in. She was wearing a uniform from a fast-food restaurant.

He felt the blood drain from his face. His voice caught in his throat.

The air in the room suddenly felt heavy, oppressive. He couldn't meet her eyes. He felt a creeping sensation of vulnerability, as if every secret he’d ever held was now exposed.

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