dumbstruck - Story 36138 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling cafeteria, usually a source of energy and camaraderie, felt like a silent, echoing void. Liam, accosted by his advisor, felt his stomach lurch. The air seemed to have been sucked from the room.

His gaze flickered to the faces of the people around him, but he couldn't connect. He felt like an actor on a stage, but he didn’t know his lines. He stumbled backward slightly, bumping into a table.

“This… this can’t be…” he whispered, his voice shaky and disbelieving. The accusations hung in the air, heavy and poisonous. He wanted to run.

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