dumbstruck - Story 36274 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office buzzed with the usual cacophony of ringing phones and clacking keyboards. Yet, for John, it was muffled, distant. He sat frozen, clutching the flimsy paper that had just altered his reality. "Logistics." It was written in bold, black letters. He pictured his old desk, his familiar routine. He felt like he had been dropped from a great height. He stared at the note, his jaw slack, as if waiting for instructions that would never come.

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