shocked - Story 132737 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news hit her like a physical blow. Alex, her rock, her partner in crime, was leaving. Across the park bench, he was smiling, gesturing animatedly as he described the job in San Francisco. She felt a sudden, inexplicable constriction in her chest, making it difficult to breathe. The sunlight, previously warm and inviting, now seemed harsh and unforgiving.

She gripped her hands together so tightly her knuckles turned white. San Francisco? The words echoed in her mind, a relentless drumbeat.

“It’s amazing, right?” Alex asked, his smile faltering slightly as he noticed her silence. She looked away, her gaze fixed on a distant tree, the leaves blurring with unshed tears.

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