dumbstruck - Story 36238 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the laptop screen, unable to tear his eyes away. His diary, his secrets, exposed. A cold sweat erupted on his forehead. He felt the blood drain from his face, leaving him feeling lightheaded and dizzy.

He felt the need to get away, to escape the suffocating presence of the screen. He rose from his chair, his legs shaky and unresponsive. He took a few hesitant steps towards the window.

The afternoon sun streamed in, illuminating the dust particles dancing in the air. He tried to focus on something, anything, other than the words on the screen, but his mind refused to cooperate.

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