shocked - Story 132560 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Guess what? I’m getting a parrot," Ben announced, with a wide, almost manic grin. Sarah's world seemed to tilt. She felt a sudden rush of heat, followed by a profound feeling of coldness that made her shiver. Her hand flew to her throat, as if to physically restrain the words threatening to spill out.

She stared at him, her eyes wide, unblinking. The world around her seemed to warp and distort. The comfortable, familiar apartment, the place where she felt safe and secure, suddenly felt like a cage. She felt a knot tighten in her stomach, a physical manifestation of her growing anxiety.

"A… a parrot?" she croaked, her voice trembling. The very thought of the squawking, the mess, the potential for chaos—sent a wave of panic surging through her.

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