“But…how?” John’s voice cracked as he spoke the single word. The DNA report lay spread on the kitchen table, a stark testament to the unraveling of his life. He’d always felt a deep, unspoken bond with his parents. Now, the test results revealed an alternate story, rewriting his entire past. His hands were clammy, his palms sweating. He felt an intense pressure building behind his eyes, a sensation that threatened to explode. He stumbled backward, knocking over a chair. The silence in the room screamed.

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