dumbstruck - Story 36170 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d been laughing, enjoying the festivities, when he saw her. The room seemed to become a blur of colours and sounds. James stared across the crowded room. There she was. The only person he didn’t want to see at the venue.

He instinctively reached for his pocket, fidgeting with the coins inside. His carefully chosen outfit now felt constricting, and his smile felt forced. The joyous music grated on his nerves.

He felt a deep and visceral feeling in his gut. He tried to take a deep breath, but his lungs wouldn't co-operate. He wanted 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