dumbstruck - Story 36229 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of lavender and old paper filled the room. Sarah stood in her childhood bedroom, the room now a shrine to her younger self. Her mother had kept everything: the glitter glue, the faded construction paper, the countless handwritten notes.

She felt a strange sensation in her head. She picked up a drawing of a family, drawn when she was six. It was of herself, her parents, and a dog. It had been years since she'd thought about that dog.

She could barely move, the volume of memories overwhelming her. She felt like she was drowning in the past, and she could only stand and stare.

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