shocked - Story 132476 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found it nestled among his mail. “To: Mr. Reginald Carter.” His brow furrowed. That name. The previous tenant. He hadn’t been able to stand the guy. His fingers felt like lead as he picked up the envelope.

He turned it over and over in his hands. He felt a sudden, inexplicable sense of nausea. A trickle of sweat began to run down his back.

He tossed the envelope onto the table. He didn't want to open it. He found himself avoiding his own reflection in the window.

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