The phone vibrated violently in Leo's hand, displaying the article's link. He’d been so sure, so certain of the success of his new, experimental dishes. His brow furrowed as he read the review, his lips pursing into a thin line. He felt an icy grip on his stomach, as if he’d swallowed a block of ice. He slowly lowered the phone, the screen reflecting his stunned expression. The entire world seemed to tilt on its axis. He couldn’t seem to breathe properly, each breath a struggle.

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