shocked - Story 132328 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The restaurant’s owner, a man named Xavier, was not a chef, yet his livelihood depended on the success of his head chef. He'd put everything on the line for this venture. He read the review, his face becoming a mask of stone. He felt as if the ground had been swept from beneath him. He clenched his fists, knuckles turning white, but said nothing. He stared at the review. The once vibrant dining room he was staring at now appeared to be dim and faded.

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