dumbstruck - Story 36249 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the dentist's office, and a routine checkup, until the x-ray report. It was impossible. The records clearly stated a root canal from years ago. A procedure he hadn't had. He felt the blood drain from his face. His mouth went dry. He tried to speak, to protest, but the words seemed to stick in his throat. He felt exposed, stripped bare. His eyes darted nervously from the dentist to the machine, searching for a sign, a clue, an explanation.

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