dumbstruck - Story 36047 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hammering started before she was even fully awake. A pounding, a rhythmic, violent percussive beat that sliced through the lingering remnants of her dreams. Her eyes snapped open. She sat up in bed, instantly alert. It was the Millers, next door.

She stumbled to the window, her heart racing. The sight that greeted her was disorienting. The entire front yard had been transformed, the Millers' house now surrounded by scaffolding. She rubbed her eyes, sure she was still dreaming.

She sank back onto the bed, limbs heavy. What were they doing?

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