shocked - Story 132179 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of icy numbness washed over Maya. She looked at Chloe, her "veterinary surgeon" friend, holding a mop and bucket. Maya saw her at the supermarket, cleaning up a spill.

Her jaw locked. The world seemed to contract, leaving only Chloe and the wet floor. The other shoppers seemed to fade from the scene.

She felt a strange disconnect from her body, as if she were floating, watching the scene unfold from a distance. She couldn't feel her feet on the ground.

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