dumbstruck - Story 36196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the name on the door – Mr. Thompson. His heart sank. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to flee. He quickly glanced around to make sure nobody saw his expression. He forced himself to walk through the threshold, and there she was, the same exact person. He felt his face heat up, and he could barely manage a nod. His hands were shaking. He struggled to remember the last time he felt so thrown. He forced himself to focus on the task at hand, to maintain some semblance of composure.

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