shocked - Story 132193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you sure?" Daniel asked, his voice barely a whisper. He reread the email, squinting at the words as if they might change. Ms. Periwinkle. The memory of her strict demeanor and the way she’d always singled him out for his poor penmanship flooded back. He felt his pulse quicken, and his palms began to itch. His son, Ethan, would be spending his third grade year under her watchful gaze. He could practically feel the dread growing in his stomach.

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