shocked - Story 132610 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the old photographs was crushing. He always believed his grandfather was a simple farmer, a man of the land. Now, staring at the images, he had no idea who this man was.

The photographs showed him at a table, with many others, all dressed in formal attire. His grandfather was laughing, his arm draped around a beautiful woman.

He paced the room, a frantic energy coursing through him. How much of his life had been a lie? He didn't know what to believe. He felt the world shift around him. The air seemed to buzz with a strange, unnerving energy.

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