dumbstruck - Story 36247 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news hit Brenda like a physical blow. The doctor’s office spun, and the room seemed to tilt. The medical record showed a history of multiple psychiatric hospitalizations. Brenda, a woman who had never seen the inside of a psychiatric ward. She stared at the paper as if it were a venomous snake, a cold dread creeping into her bones. Her mouth opened, but no sound came out. She felt a strange tingling sensation in her limbs, a signal of things she couldn't yet understand.

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