David stared at the screen, a blank expression etched on his face. The name, "Samantha," from a face he hadn't seen in decades. It was as if a physical blow had been delivered.

He felt a sudden pressure in his chest, as if a weight had been placed upon it. His palms began to sweat. He slowly sank back in his chair. He was unable to move, rooted to the spot.

He closed his eyes and saw her face, the sneer, the sharp words. She used to torment him, and now, it was as if she'd reached out from the past to torment him again.

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