From the car, the missing elm was immediately apparent, a grotesque emptiness in the carefully manicured landscape. Liam felt a pressure build behind his eyes, a tightness that threatened to burst.

He walked forward slowly, each step feeling weighted, leaden. He stopped just beyond the ragged edge of the cut.

His hands began to tremble. He slowly bent to touch the scarred wood. The tears, unshed for years, finally spilled over, silent trails down his cheeks.

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:
будто0.298
😰0.268
sickening0.266
не0.266
que0.257
Suppressed:
enthusi-0.283
开心-0.269
ولة-0.262
ارك-0.257
উৎসাহিত-0.255