dumbstruck - Story 36176 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of heat crashed over Jessica. Across the polished mahogany desk, Robert, her "starving artist" friend, gestured expansively, describing his latest project. The office was enormous, filled with expensive artwork. The nameplate on the desk read: “Robert Sterling, CEO, Sterling Art Collective.” Her heart hammered against her ribs.

“So, yeah,” Robert said, beaming, “It’s been going great!”

Jessica just nodded, a forced smile plastered on her face. The air seemed thin. She felt like she was drowning.

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