shocked - Story 132338 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The headline screamed at her from the local paper: "Beloved Bistro to Shut Doors." Her stomach clenched. The bistro, "Le Petit Coin," was where she’d celebrated her anniversary every year. She felt a sharp pang in her chest, a physical ache.

She dropped the paper on the kitchen table, the sudden noise surprising her. She stared blankly at the wall, her mind racing. The restaurant was her happy place.

She felt suddenly lost, adrift in a sea of uncertainty. The world had shifted on its axis.

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