dumbstruck - Story 36183 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone lay discarded on the bedside table, a silent accuser. Liam had just emerged from the shower, a towel wrapped loosely around his waist. He’d heard the muffled laughter, the quick goodbye as he’d been fumbling for his glasses. The smell of his wife's perfume filled the room, but it no longer felt familiar.

His feet felt rooted to the spot. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. He couldn’t speak, couldn’t move. His vision swam. He blinked, trying to clear the haze that was forming.

He felt a deep, cold ache bloom in the pit of his stomach. His gaze lingered on the phone, as if it held the answer to a riddle he couldn’t decipher. What had he missed?

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