A cold sweat broke out across Amelia’s forehead as she read the class list. Her hands started to tremble, and she had to grip the edge of the desk to steady herself. Mr. Henderson. The man who’d once told her she’d never amount to anything. The very same Mr. Henderson now teaching her daughter, Lily. A wave of nausea hit her, and she suddenly felt a desperate need for fresh air. This couldn't be happening. She considered calling the school, maybe explaining there had been a mistake.

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