dumbstruck - Story 36158 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call was short, to the point. “We’ve gone with someone else, Chloe.” The words, spoken in a calm, professional tone, still felt like a punch. I almost dropped the phone.

I sat on the edge of my bed, phone dangling from my fingers, staring at the wall. My mind raced, but nothing came into focus. The silence in the room amplified the frantic beating of my heart.

The interview, the hours of preparation, the hopes, all seemed to vanish.

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