She froze. The man who'd just bumped into her at the farmers market, apologizing with a sheepish grin, was the same guy who'd been sending her poetry and obscure memes for over a year. She knew the way he stood, the tilt of his head, the particular curve of his smile. He looked even better in real life. The thought made her flush.

Her hand flew to her cheek. She was suddenly acutely aware of her messy bun and the stain on her t-shirt. He was so close. The distance between them seemed to shrink, amplifying her internal turmoil.

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