The lawyer’s office felt stuffy, the air thick with unspoken tension. The legal document, resting on the polished mahogany table, revealed the truth. A long-term prescription for a highly addictive painkiller. A drug he'd avoided his entire life. He leaned back in his chair, suddenly unable to meet the lawyer's gaze. The implications were immense. His world started to unravel, a slow, agonizing disintegration. His hands clenched into fists, the knuckles turning white.

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