The pencil sketch in his hands trembled. He couldn't believe his eyes. There, drawn with impressive detail by his niece, Millie, was Jasper. The incredibly detailed depiction of a blue fox with one ear perpetually twitching brought a wave of memories flooding back.

He felt a tightness in his throat, a sensation he hadn't experienced since childhood. He wanted to shout, to ask questions, to demand answers, but the words were trapped. He slowly lowered himself onto the chair, a feeling of unease settling into his stomach. He focused his gaze on the drawing, the reality of it all just beginning to sink in.

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:
будто0.326
не0.285
😶0.275
仿佛0.267
依旧0.258
Suppressed:
enthusi-0.278
la-0.264
K-0.260
wholeheartedly-0.255
-0.254