The world seemed to tilt on its axis. Amelia blinked, the gallery lights blurring into streaks of white and gold. Her sculpture, “Solitude,” loomed before her, larger than life, a grotesque parody of her original intent. It was altered, modified, the delicate wirework replaced with clumsy, heavy metal. Disbelief coiled in her stomach, making her muscles clench. She wanted to scream, to lash out, but the words were trapped, lodged somewhere in her throat.

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