“Is that…?” Thomas trailed off, his voice a disbelieving whisper. He felt a strange tingling in his fingertips, as though they’d lost all feeling. The poster, emblazoned with his watercolor illustration, stared back at him from the bus stop. The one he’d abandoned, deemed unfinished and flawed. A cold wave washed over him, leaving him feeling hollowed out, empty of any emotion save a peculiar lightness. He'd never signed a release, never given permission.

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