Her voice was a mere whisper as she spoke. “This… this can’t be…”

The picture showed her grandmother, the woman of faith, dressed in a daring outfit, dancing at a club. Her eyes were bright, her smile wide. It was a freedom she had never known.

She felt a wave of nausea.

She flipped the photograph over, and on the back, was a name and a date. It was a name and date that had no place in her family's narrative.

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