The meeting room felt suddenly small, the air thick with unspoken expectations. “You’ll be heading up the new Customer Relations initiative,” the boss had announced, his tone jovial, almost… expectant. Amelia found herself nodding slowly, as if her neck had developed a separate, independent will. Her stomach churned. Customer Relations? Her forte was data analysis, a world of numbers and certainty. She glanced down at her meticulously manicured nails, then back up at her superior, her mind a blank canvas, unable to process the information.

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