dumbstruck - Story 36198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air thickened with a memory he hadn't accessed in years. He felt a sudden, dizzying loss of balance. It was Mrs. Miller, unchanged, her kind eyes still smiling. He felt the blood drain from his face. His son was running towards her, happily exclaiming, “Mom, look! It’s Mrs. Miller! She's my new teacher!” He felt a strange combination of fear and nostalgia. The world seemed to spin. He gripped the door frame for support.

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