dumbstruck - Story 36053 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The little antique shop was crammed with forgotten treasures. Amongst the chipped porcelain dolls and dusty clocks, Eleanor found it. Her grandmother’s ring. The intricate scrollwork, the ruby that once blazed with a vibrant life. Eleanor pressed a hand to her chest, feeling a sudden pressure, a squeezing sensation.

She reeled back, bumping into a display of chipped teacups. The shop owner, a small man with a walrus mustache, peered over his spectacles. “Find something you like, miss?” he asked.

Her throat felt constricted. Her voice was barely a whisper. "That ring…is it for sale?" The shop owner grinned. "Everything in here is for sale, doll."

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