He had just made the shot that would win the game. The crowd roared. Then, the coach pulled him aside. "Jackson, we're moving you to center, from forward." He was known for his speed, his agility on the wing. Now this. Jackson looked around the court as if seeing it for the first time. The bright lights blurred, the squeak of the sneakers on the floor suddenly a cacophony. His breath hitched in his throat. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to flee the arena altogether. He managed a weak nod, but the world had tilted on its axis.

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