dumbstruck - Story 36200 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a curious disconnect, as if he were watching a movie about his own life. The teacher's voice, the way she gestured with her hands - it was all so familiar. His son's excited chatter faded into background noise. The air seemed to shimmer around him. He could feel his pulse throbbing in his ears. He looked around the room, trying to find an anchor, a stable point in this whirlwind of recognition. He needed to say something, anything, but his tongue felt heavy, useless.

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