dumbstruck - Story 36131 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The professor’s words echoed in Leo's ears, a hollow sound. He stared, unable to formulate a response. The room tilted slightly. Sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air, but Leo couldn't focus on anything beyond the accusations. His chest constricted. He felt the blood drain from his face.

“I… I don’t understand,” he stammered finally, the words catching in his throat. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture automatic, clumsy. The room around him blurred, and for a moment, he thought he might pass out.

The professor tapped a printout with a stern finger. "Your work, Mr. Harding, bears an undeniable resemblance to this online source." Leo’s gaze flickered to the paper, then away, unable to meet the professor’s eye. The world seemed to shrink, closing in on 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