shocked - Story 132690 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a sudden shortness of breath. Photography had always been his passion, capturing moments in time, freezing them forever. His darkroom was his sanctuary. Now, his son, Noah, was standing beside him, expertly developing a film, the red glow illuminating his face. Noah was holding up a print, a perfect image that rivaled his own best work. “Dad,” Noah stated, his voice flat, “I think I’ve found a new technique to enhance the shadows.” He felt the blood drain from his face.

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