The words swam before Amelia's eyes. “Transferred to IT Support.” She slowly lowered the coffee mug to her desk. The ceramic clinked against the wood. Her throat felt tight. She liked working with the company’s clients. Tech support? She had barely the basic knowledge to use a printer.

She looked around her office at her colleagues, at the familiar faces, the comfortable routine, and felt a pang of… something. Her stomach churned. A wave of nausea washed over her. She got up from her chair and walked to the window. The bright blue sky suddenly felt incredibly distant.

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