dumbstruck - Story 36177 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of glasses. The laughter. It all felt distant. Michael had just heard it – from the man himself – "Senior Data Analyst" at a prestigious firm. And what he really was? A truck driver. Always had been. Always will be. The revelation crashed against him, leaving him reeling in his chair. He had assumed, for so long, that his friend, Sam, had a low paying job.

“Another round, Mike?” Sam asked, grinning and gesturing towards the bartender.

Michael just stared. His mouth felt dry. He could only manage a nod, unable to utter a single word. He felt disoriented.

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