dumbstruck - Story 36154 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had the job. Daniel had the job. The words echoed in my ears, a cruel refrain. I had spent weeks preparing, polishing my resume, crafting the perfect cover letter. All for nothing.

A wave of dizziness washed over me, and I gripped the edge of the table to steady myself. The room blurred. I felt lightheaded. All of my energy was gone.

“Great news, Daniel!” I managed to force out, my voice sounding strained. It sounded hollow, insincere, even to my own ears. I watched him beam.

I 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