dumbstruck - Story 36240 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was halfway through his breakfast cereal when the headline hit him. His spoon clattered to the floor. The milk seemed to slosh around in the bowl, a dizzying, liquid mirror. He simply stared, unable to believe what he was seeing. His diary, public.

He rose to his feet, feeling strangely disoriented. He walked to the sink, absentmindedly turning on the faucet. The water gushed out, the sound filling the sudden emptiness in his mind.

He leaned against the counter, the cool ceramic a small comfort. He felt a profound sense of… something. He didn’t know what. He just knew he needed to escape.

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