The elegant script on the cream-colored card was a stark contrast to the casual chaos of their apartment. Chloe found it while sorting through her husband, Leo’s, desk. “Learn to play the piano.” “Visit Japan.” “Divorce Chloe.” She felt a wave of nausea, her stomach turning.

She sat heavily in his chair, the world spinning slightly. She reached out, her hand trembling, and picked up the photograph on his desk. A picture of the two of them, smiling. It felt like a lifetime ago. This felt like an eternity.

She wanted to scream.

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