shocked - Story 132993 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No. No, no, no," Maya whispered, her voice barely audible. The webpage blurred before her eyes. It couldn't be. That personal anecdote about her childhood, the one about the fireflies, was now displayed for prospective students. She clenched her fists, knuckles turning white. The words on the screen seemed to mock her, each sentence a painful reminder of her vulnerability. Her breath came in shallow, uneven gasps. She ran a hand through her hair, tangling it further.

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