dumbstruck - Story 36018 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the living room seemed to thicken with unspoken questions. Her brother, usually a font of sarcastic wit, was unusually quiet, his eyes darting around the room. He’d just announced he was embracing Hinduism. She felt as if she were wading through molasses. The patterns on the sofa seemed to shift and swirl. She wanted to scream, to laugh, to cry – but she could only sit there, frozen, the words refusing to form in her mouth. She felt a deep, unfamiliar ache in her jaw.

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