shocked - Story 132283 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request from Bethany “Banshee” Barnes popped up while Sarah was scrolling through vacation photos. Her fingers froze mid-swipe. A cold wave swept over her, stealing the warmth from her cheeks.

Sarah let out a small, involuntary gasp. Bethany, the girl who’d made her life a misery in middle school. The girl who’d spread vicious rumors. The girl who made her feel small. She felt suddenly very warm.

She instinctively reached for her water bottle, taking a long, slow gulp as if trying to wash away the years of hurt. Then, she slowly leaned back in her chair and stared up at the ceiling, her mind replaying a montage of painful childhood memories.

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