shocked - Story 132400 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was browsing a bookstore. David reached the end of "Hamlet," in a very old copy, and a small, folded scrap of paper emerged. He felt a sharp, unexpected intake of breath. He looked around.

His hands were unsteady, almost incapable of holding the paper. His gaze flickered between the letter and the people around him. He felt an urgent, overwhelming need to understand the words. He began to read, his voice a bare whisper.

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