dumbstruck - Story 36193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world tilted. Michael's mouth hung open. The brightly colored classroom, filled with giggling children, felt like a bizarre, unsettling time capsule. He knew the woman immediately. Same vibrant red lipstick, same perfectly coiffed hair. He hadn’t thought about Mrs. Peterson in decades, but here she was, in all her glory, holding his own daughter's hand. He felt his pulse quicken, his palms turning clammy. The years melted away, and he was suddenly that scared little boy again. He couldn't speak, could only stare.

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