shocked - Story 132765 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the empty lot. "It's… it's gone," whispered David, his voice thin and reedy.

He had expected to see it, to feel the familiar comfort of its presence. Now, his stomach churned. He looked around wildly, as if expecting the tree to suddenly reappear.

His pulse hammered in his ears. He sank down onto a nearby rock, his face buried in his hands. He felt a profound sense of loss, a hole in the fabric of his world.

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