The elevator ascended slowly, the silence broken only by the tinny elevator music. Then, his song started. From the speakers overhead, a version of his song that was better than the original version he had written. It was a stripped-down acoustic rendition, perfectly crafted.

He leaned against the wall, a strange tingling sensation spreading through his limbs. His mind raced, desperate to understand how this was possible.

He stepped out of the elevator, leaving the song behind, feeling adrift. He walked down the corridor, feeling detached from everything around him.

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