shocked - Story 132874 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stumbled backward, as if struck. The neon sign, proclaiming “Artisanal Eats,” pulsed above him, the restaurant's name a vulgar overlay on his painstakingly crafted cityscape. His pulse hammered against his ribs. It was as if his very identity was being stolen, rewritten. He could only stare, mouth agape, at the mangled beauty of his work, now advertising overpriced sandwiches. He felt a dizzying pressure behind his eyes.

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