Sarah stared at the printout, the glossy paper feeling cold and alien against her trembling fingers. The diagnosis, printed in stark, bold letters, seemed to pulsate, mocking her. Multiple sclerosis. A disease she knew nothing about, a future she never imagined. She felt a wave of nausea crash over her. Her vision blurred, and she gripped the edge of the table, knuckles white. “This… this can’t be right,” she mumbled, the words lost in the sterile silence of the examination room. Her mind was a whirlwind of frantic, disconnected thoughts.

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