dumbstruck - Story 36153 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived at 10:03 AM. I reread the subject line: “Job Application Update.” My heart hammered against my ribs as I opened it. It wasn't mine. It was Emily’s.

I closed my laptop, the screen reflecting my own stunned gaze. My fingers tapped a rhythmic beat against the cold metal, a nervous tick I hadn't realized I possessed. The silence in my apartment pressed in, suffocating.

Thoughts swirled in my head, a chaotic mix of disbelief and… well, something else I couldn't quite define. I wanted to scream, but no sound would come. I took a deep breath, willing the panic to subside. Then I decided to go for a 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