dumbstruck - Story 36124 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had to be there. The contract signing. Years of work, all culminating in this moment. The words on the screen, *DELAYED INDEFINITELY*, seemed to mock him. His hands balled into fists, his knuckles white. The sterile environment of the airport, the endless rows of identical chairs, the monotonous hum of the air conditioning, all seemed to close in on him.

He felt a tightness in his chest, a sensation of being utterly trapped. He wanted to shout, to rail against the injustice of it all, but no sound would come out. He just stood there, rooted to the spot, a statue of frustration.

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