The screen seemed to blur, the words morphing into a meaningless jumble. He slammed his fist down on the desk, the impact reverberating through his arm. The small office plant, a symbol of stability, quivered. He stared at his hand.

He felt a sudden, overwhelming urge to rage, to break something, to scream at the top of his lungs. But the words caught in his throat. His breath caught in his chest. He felt as though the blood was draining from his face.

The world seemed to spin. The mundane tasks, the daily routines, the familiar faces – all were now tainted by a sense of impending doom. He felt a profound sense of loss, a grief for a future that had just been irrevocably altered.

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