He was scrolling through a music streaming platform, hoping to find some inspiration. A suggested playlist started playing, and then it hit. The opening chords of his song. Sung by someone he'd never heard of.

His eyes widened. He sat up straighter, leaning closer to the laptop screen. He stared at the artist's name, a name he didn't recognize. It was undeniably his song, but the arrangement had been transformed, polished and perfected.

He felt a deep disquiet. He leaned back in his chair, a coldness spreading through him. He was losing control.

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