shocked - Story 132339 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had just parked his car, eager for a comforting meal at "Noodle House." The restaurant's glowing sign was visible, beckoning him. Then, he saw it: a small, handwritten sign taped to the door. "Closed."

His legs felt unsteady. He remained frozen in place, gazing at the sign. His usual Saturday night ritual was ruined.

He blinked, several times, as if hoping the sign would vanish. He felt disconnected, like he was floating outside 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