shocked - Story 132774 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer announced the final figures. Daniel’s inheritance: a modest sum, enough to pay off his student loans. His sister, Olivia, was left the family farm. A farm, he learned, that was built on a massive, hidden deposit of oil. His stomach dropped. The room swam. He’d always felt a certain resentment towards her, her perceived freedom from the burdens of their shared past. Now, that resentment twisted into something akin to physical pain. He felt like he was going to be sick. He had to sit down.

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