He’d always prided himself on meticulous organization. The previous owners, however, were a different story. David’s breath hitched as he surveyed the attic's contents. A dusty record player sat beside a pile of vinyl albums, their covers depicting musicians from a bygone era. A faded wedding dress hung on a mannequin, the fabric brittle with age. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't realized he made. A hand-painted sign proclaiming "Grandma's Antiques" was propped against a wall, and he felt a cold dread creep up his spine. What was this?

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