dumbstruck - Story 36179 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the cramped garage felt deafening. John stared at the gleaming, custom-built sports car. He thought of all the times, the countless hours, that Leo had complained about being "between jobs," about struggling financially. The car... It was a physical manifestation of a lie. His hands clenched into fists.

“So, yeah,” Leo said, a nervous laugh escaping him, “Things are… going well.”

John didn't say anything. He turned and walked out, the image of the car burned into his memory.

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