The package, large and brown, leaned against the door. "To Mr. Alistair Finch," it proclaimed. He knew that name. He’d seen it on the mailbox when he bought the house. He felt the blood drain from his face.

He ran a hand through his hair, his mind racing. Finch had moved out over a decade ago. He hadn't thought about that former owner in years. He bent down, carefully examining the packaging. He needed to get away, and fast.

His stomach lurched. He felt his legs grow weak. He backed away from the box as though it were radioactive. He had to call someone.

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