shocked - Story 132316 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the menu, the restaurant dimly lit. He was supposed to be enjoying a romantic dinner, celebrating their anniversary. Across from him, his girlfriend, Isabella, was reading the menu, then looking up at him. She smiled.

"You know," she said, then continued, in a language he'd never heard her utter before, “*Ego ere ikusten dut zure sabela!*”

His fork clattered against the plate. His face flushed. What was she saying? Basque? He felt a wave of nausea wash over him. His mind reeled. He focused on the flickering candlelight, trying to ground himself.

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