shocked - Story 132290 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification chimed, and with it, a name: “Jason Peterson.” It caused an immediate involuntary tightening of her jaw. She hadn't thought about him in years, and the sudden intrusion into her present felt like an unwanted invasion.

She was suddenly aware of every sound in the room: the ticking of the clock, the hum of the refrigerator. She felt a cold sensation in her fingertips. She closed her eyes, and the memories came flooding back, unbidden and unwelcome.

She spun around and left the room, needing to be far away from her computer. It was a day to not be online, a day to pretend the request, and the past it represented, did not exist.

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