Her breath hitched as she scrolled down the page. Each entry, a painful reminder of her awkward teenage years, her unrequited crushes, her insecurities. She felt exposed, vulnerable. Her heart was racing.

She wanted to laugh, to cry, to scream. But instead, she just sat there, frozen in place. Her hands trembled uncontrollably. She instinctively reached out and gripped the edge of the table, as if to anchor herself to reality.

She closed her eyes, trying to block out the onslaught of words. It was like living through her teenage years all over again, but this time, the whole world was watching.

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