He checked his pockets again, patting them down with a frantic energy. Keys? Phone? Wallet? Everything was there. Except… His stomach twisted into a knot. The space was vacant. He just… stood. He hadn't seen the tow truck, hadn't heard any warning.

A cold sweat broke out on his forehead. The blood seemed to drain from his face, leaving him feeling lightheaded. He felt a sudden, intense urge to sit down, to just…stop. His eyes darted around, searching for a clue, any indication of what had happened. He leaned against his house, seeking support.

He felt a deep hollowness, a profound sense of bewilderment. He just stared at the spot, his mouth agape. The car was gone. Utterly, completely gone.

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:
будто0.326
не0.285
😶0.275
仿佛0.267
依旧0.258
Suppressed:
enthusi-0.278
la-0.264
K-0.260
wholeheartedly-0.255
-0.254