“The concert was amazing!” Mark enthused, his voice brimming with excitement. He was animated, talking about the incredible stage show, the soaring vocals, and the electric atmosphere. He was clearly transported back to the night, reliving every moment.

Suddenly, a strange feeling overcame her. She remembered an overwhelming feeling of boredom, of being trapped in a crowded, noisy space. The music had sounded tinny. The crowd had been rowdy and unpleasant.

She could not understand what was happening. Her hand went to her head, and she stared blankly at him. It was as if they had gone to two different shows.

"I... I don't remember it that way," she mumbled, the words feeling foreign on her tongue.

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