shocked - Story 132747 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dog started barking, a frantic, high-pitched yelp. Emily rushed to the window, ready to scold him. Then she saw it. The fallen tree, lying like a felled giant, its branches obscuring the sunlight.

Her stomach lurched. She felt a cold sweat break out on her forehead. The air suddenly felt dense, as if it was pushing against her. She pressed her hands against the glass, needing to anchor herself.

Her mind raced. Insurance? Mrs. Davis? The dog whined, nudging her leg. She gave a small, jerky nod, her voice caught in her throat.

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