shocked - Story 132773 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The envelope felt heavy in Maya's hand. It contained her grandmother's inheritance letter. Across the table, her brother, Ethan, chattered about the new sports car he was going to buy with *his* inheritance, a generous sum of cash. Maya ripped open the letter, her hands trembling. Inside, it detailed a lifetime supply of… knitting needles and yarn? A look of utter bewilderment crossed her face. Ethan paused mid-sentence, his brow furrowing as he studied her. She felt a burning heat rise up her neck.

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