shocked - Story 132779 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, Ms. Harper," the trustee began, his voice dry and businesslike, "you have been left the family's art collection, valued at a considerable sum." Annabelle, her brow furrowed, listened to the details. Her brother, James, received the family business – a successful, modern company. The art collection… she knew nothing about art. It felt like a cruel trick. She swallowed hard, her mouth suddenly dry. She gripped the arms of the chair so tightly, her knuckles were white.

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