dumbstruck - Story 36260 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen displayed the website, the article shining back at him. It was his. The research, the writing, the editing. But not his name. "By Jason Thompson." He felt a cold dread settle in his stomach. He was rendered utterly immobile.

His fingers went numb, his breath hitched in his throat. He sat there, his eyes glued to the screen, his mind struggling to process the information. It was as if someone had punched the air out of his lungs. He felt a deep, pervasive sense of wrongness.

He wanted to reach out, to touch something, to ground himself in reality. He looked around the room, then back at the screen, the digital thief staring back at him. The chair felt hard beneath him. He was trapped.

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