dumbstruck - Story 36057 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The musty smell of the pawn shop filled her nostrils, a smell she usually found unpleasant. But now, it was background noise. Her gaze locked on the ring. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic rhythm against the quiet of the shop. This was impossible.

She had been visiting for a laugh, to see what could be found. Now her body was frozen, and she felt rooted to the floor. She could only stare.

The shop owner, a young man with a pierced eyebrow, leaned closer. "Nice, huh?" he said. She nodded slowly, her throat constricted. She wanted to scream, to cry, to run.

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