shocked - Story 132248 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed like a physical blow, stealing the air from his lungs. He sat stunned, the doctor's explanation washing over him in a confusing torrent of medical jargon. The weight of the news was crushing, the realization of what it meant.

His heart pounded against his ribs, a frantic drumbeat echoing in the sudden quiet of the consultation room. He felt a tingling sensation spread throughout his limbs. All the anguish he’d endured felt like a cruel joke.

He took a shaky breath, trying to collect himself. The room seemed to shrink around him. “So… it’s… all a mistake?” he mumbled, his voice raspy and uncertain.

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