dumbstruck - Story 36250 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the diagnosis settled upon him, a heavy, suffocating blanket. The words on the page jumped out at him: Type 1 Diabetes. His diet, his lifestyle, had been meticulously planned to prevent anything of the sort. He felt the floor beneath him shift. The vibrant, sunny day outside the window seemed to fade, replaced by a gray, oppressive gloom. His chest tightened; the air was suddenly hard to find. He closed his eyes, searching for a way out.

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