dumbstruck - Story 36008 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang. It was from a tattoo artist, wanting permission to use his work for a sleeve. He’d never granted such a request, but out of curiosity, he agreed to meet. The artist’s stomach churned as he entered the parlor, the air thick with the scent of ink and antiseptic. There on the artist’s shoulder, a near-identical depiction of his ‘Crimson Comet’ masterpiece.

He felt the blood drain from his face. His voice caught in his throat. He stared at the artwork, a permanent testament to his own creation, and felt a strange sense of… loss?

“So, what do you think?” the tattoo artist asked, a confident grin on his face. He shook his head slowly, and didn’t say anything.

Emotion: dumbstruck

Cluster: Surprise / Confusion

PC1 (Valence): -1.99 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.71

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion dumbstruck. 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 dumbstruck stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the dumbstruck emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the dumbstruck vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`будто`	0.326
`не`	0.285
`😶`	0.275
`仿佛`	0.267
`依旧`	0.258

Suppressed:

`enthusi`	-0.278
`la`	-0.264
`K`	-0.260
`wholeheartedly`	-0.255
`쾌`	-0.254