The oversized package was impossible to ignore. Ms. Johnson had been sorting through some old files when it arrived. The delivery man seemed to have trouble lifting it. The sender? Mark Thompson. She remembered Mark. Always getting into trouble. A rebel, to put it lightly. Her curiosity, mixed with apprehension, got the better of her.

She ripped open the packaging. Inside was a large, framed canvas. It was a vibrant, abstract painting, signed in the corner. Beneath the signature was a small dedication: “To the one who taught me to see.” She stood there, rooted to the spot, staring at the artwork. A flush crept up her neck, and a strange tingling sensation spread through her limbs.

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:
будто0.298
😰0.268
sickening0.266
не0.266
que0.257
Suppressed:
enthusi-0.283
开心-0.269
ولة-0.262
ارك-0.257
উৎসাহিত-0.255