shocked - Story 132708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the breakroom seemed to thicken, making it difficult to breathe. Jason was regaling the office with tales of Camp Timberwood, and the shared memories of his youth. Sarah’s face flushed red, and she felt a sudden urge to flee the room.

Her hands began to tremble. Her heart hammered against her ribs. She felt trapped. The coffee she had just made turned bitter in her mouth.

"Timberwood?" she asked, her voice a strained whisper. The world around her warped, and she felt an overwhelming sense of vulnerability. It was like her carefully constructed walls were crumbling.

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