dumbstruck - Story 36010 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was scrolling through his social media feed when the image popped up. A close-up shot of someone's leg, prominently displaying his ‘Fractured Sky’ series. He slammed his laptop shut.

His hands shook as he rose from his chair. He walked to the window, staring out at the rain-swept street. He felt a deep, visceral unease, a feeling that something precious had been taken from him.

He picked up the phone, and found he could not dial any numbers.

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