shocked - Story 132819 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The meticulously organized waiting room felt like a trap. He stared at the name on the door: "Dr. Fiona Carter, Counselor." The world seemed to spin, colors becoming distorted. *Fiona Carter*. The girl who had orchestrated a campaign of social ostracization against him in middle school.

His heartbeat accelerated, a frantic drum against his ribs.

He entered the office. Fiona was seated behind a desk, her expression neutral. "Please, take a seat, Michael." Her voice was calm, almost soothing. It was completely incongruous with his memories of her. The room began to swim.

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