He stared at the photograph, his pulse quickening. James had been told how his grandfather had bravely fought in the Second World War. A hero, they’d said. The image showed a man alright, in uniform. But it wasn't a soldier. It was a guard. A guard at a place the history books kept secret.

He didn't know how to react. His mouth moved, but no sound came out.

He sat there, the air suddenly too thin to breathe. The world tilted on its axis.

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