From the moment the professor announced it, the classroom had become a vacuum, where all sound was muted. I felt my ears ringing, and my eyes struggled to focus on the chalkboard. Everything seemed distant, unreal. I felt disconnected, as if I were observing myself from a place far away.

I felt a sudden need to leave. My chair screeched against the floor as I stood, my legs wobbling beneath me. My vision blurred and everything became hazy. "I need some air" I croaked. I stumbled out of the classroom, blindly navigating the crowded hallway, the murmurs of students seemingly miles away.

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