"And then you tripped and spilled spaghetti all over the bride," Jake chuckled, retelling the story of his sister's wedding.

Sarah’s face flushed. That wasn't how she remembered it. She had been nervous, yes, but she remembered gracefully navigating the crowded reception, balancing a plate of food. It was Jake who had bumped into someone. He had spilled the pasta. He made the mess. The room tilted. She reached for the water glass, her hand shaking so badly she nearly dropped it. A cold sweat beaded on her forehead.

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