shocked - Story 132940 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found them on his desk, the vibrant gerberas popping against the stark white of the office. He leaned back in his chair, his usual confident demeanor crumbling. It was so unexpected.

He felt a sudden wave of heat rush through him. Who would send flowers to the office, to him, anonymously? The whole thing felt like a practical joke. The petals appeared to be staring at him, judging him.

He looked around the room, making a show of inspecting the vents, as if to find the culprit. He felt a need to find the truth, even though he knew he wouldn't. The flowers stood, and the clock ticked.

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