shocked - Story 132710 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, usually comforting, turned acrid in Leo's nostrils. Across the table, Emily described the archery competition at Camp Willow Creek, a place Leo had vowed never to think about again.

He felt a tightening in his jaw, and a wave of nausea washed over him. The sounds of the office, the typing, the phones ringing, all seemed to amplify and attack his senses.

“Willow Creek?” Leo managed, his voice strained and tight. He stared at Emily, his face pale. The world around him seemed to tilt on its axis.

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