dumbstruck - Story 36128 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling airport felt like a surreal landscape. The important business meeting. The deal of a lifetime. The news of the delay hit him like a physical blow. He sat down heavily, the plastic chair groaning under his weight. His face was pale, his eyes wide, vacant.

He just sat there, frozen in place, like a statue. The noise faded away. The people became an indistinguishable blur. He slowly turned his head, a single tear tracing a path down his cheek. An utter emptiness consumed him.

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