shocked - Story 132694 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"And the new Head of Marketing will be… Michael Davies!" The CEO’s voice boomed through the conference room, and the words echoed in Leo's ears. He felt as though the ground had been pulled out from under him. The room began to spin.

He’d spent weeks preparing for this presentation, perfecting his pitch, showcasing his innovative ideas. He'd even bought a new suit. Now, it felt like a costume, a hollow facade.

He forced a smile, clapping politely as the room erupted in applause. His throat felt tight, and he struggled to swallow. His gaze drifted to Michael, who was beaming, accepting congratulations. He wanted to scream.

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