He stared at the screen, the email glowing with a malevolent light. It detailed the sale of his revolutionary new type of solar panel. He'd envisioned this as his legacy, a way to save the planet. A fist clenched in his chest, squeezing the air from his lungs. His breath hitched in his throat. He leaned back, the chair protesting as he did so, and ran a hand through his already disheveled hair, the action a futile attempt to regain some semblance of composure. "Impossible," he whispered, the word lost in the vastness of his workshop.

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