"It was so clear," Daniel said, pointing a finger at the wall. "She was the one who saw the thief, remember? You said it was her." They were discussing the time Daniel's car had been broken into. They'd both been there.

His friend, Mark, looked utterly confused. “No way. I’m positive it was him. Remember the hoodie? It wasn't her, it was him!” Mark’s certainty was unsettling. Daniel's gut churned. He recalled the dim streetlights, the shadowy figure darting away. He was almost certain he saw a flash of brown hair, not a shaved head. He felt as if he was being gaslit. He sat back, his head throbbing. He felt a deep-seated panic, a sense of disquiet, like he was standing on shifting sand.

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