shocked - Story 132818 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of lavender and sandalwood assaulted his senses, a stark contrast to the memories flooding his mind. He scanned the nameplate: "Dr. Marcus Reed, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist." He felt an inexplicable surge of nausea. *Marcus Reed*. The boy who had terrorized him during summer camp, the one who seemed to thrive on his insecurity.

He stood, swaying slightly, feeling as if the floor had tilted.

He entered the office. Marcus, older but still recognizable, was seated behind his desk. He smiled at him. “David! Great to see you. Have a seat. What brings you here today?” His tone was friendly, the total opposite of the way he’d treated him.

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