shocked - Story 132590 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pub was loud, the atmosphere jovial. Ben was enjoying a beer with friends, feeling relaxed. Then, the jukebox clicked over to a new song. His song.

He turned, his gaze snapping towards the jukebox. He felt a sudden, sharp pang in his chest. He could feel the blood draining from his face. A wave of dizziness washed over him.

He pushed his way through the crowd, his eyes fixed on the source of the music. He needed to see, to understand. He felt an urge to scream.

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