shocked - Story 132184 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the darkened living room, Maya watched her girlfriend, Chloe, on the patio. Chloe had been out there for hours, talking in hushed tones, her silhouette barely visible in the moonlight. Maya felt a disquieting sensation; a buzzing at the back of her neck, a tightening in her chest.

She went to open the glass door and felt her hand freeze on the handle.

Chloe was laughing. It wasn't the sound she knew. It wasn't the sound of belonging.

The air felt thick, heavy with unspoken things. Maya’s breath hitched. She couldn't remember the last time she’d felt this alienated from someone she loved.

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