dumbstruck - Story 36180 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The information slammed into her like a physical blow. "Dr. Thomas Ashton, Lead Neurosurgeon." This was on the nameplate, gleaming and professional, on the desk in front of her. For years, she knew him as Tom, her quiet, unassuming friend who always said he worked in “administration” at the hospital. Her brain felt like it was scrambling for answers, for logic.

"So, yeah," Tom said, smiling kindly. "Ready to begin?"

She just blinked, her throat suddenly constricting. Her carefully prepared questions evaporated. She felt like she'd been plunged into an icy bath.

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