shocked - Story 132234 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification had arrived at 3:00 AM. Liam, already awake with a fit of insomnia, clicked it open. He scanned the link, and his blood went cold. He felt a peculiar lightness, as though he might float away. He fumbled for his glasses, needing to read the words again, to verify the horror. The digital replica of his diary, with all its teenage angst and awkward declarations, stared back at him. He could taste bile in the back of his throat.

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