dumbstruck - Story 36171 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, usually a comfort, now felt cloying. Sarah stared, unblinking, at the sleek business card. "Chief Financial Officer, Sterling Industries." That wasn't it. Not at all. She felt a strange buzzing in her ears. For five years, Liam had told everyone he was a "freelance consultant." She’d always pictured him in a home office, hunched over spreadsheets. CFO. It was a completely different planet. Her jaw felt locked.

He chuckled, a nervous sound that grated. “So, uh, fancy coffee shop, huh?” His gaze darted away.

Sarah slowly lowered the card. The edges seemed to blur. She managed a thin, "You never mentioned…" The rest of the words got lost in her throat.

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