The silence amplified the emptiness. He walked towards the driveway, expecting to see his beat-up sedan. Instead, there was nothing. A physical weight settled on him, making it hard to breathe.

He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture. His stomach churned. He felt a desperate need to sit down, to collect himself, to make sense of this new reality. He felt… exposed.

He checked his pockets, then his keys, as if to magically make the car reappear.

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