shocked - Story 132401 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s words echoed in Leo's ears, a bizarre remix of muffled sounds. His jaw felt loose, like it was about to unhinge. The house? *Their* house? He couldn’t process it. He glanced at Maya, who stared blankly ahead, her knuckles white around her handbag strap.

He wanted to laugh, a wild, unrestrained sound that would slice through the formality of the room. Instead, he simply cleared his throat, the sound rough and foreign. He hadn’t felt this disoriented since he’d gotten lost in the woods as a child, convinced bears were watching him from the shadows.

He thought of the peeling paint, the overgrown garden, the attic overflowing with forgotten memories. This couldn’t be real.

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