dumbstruck - Story 36288 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The message arrived right as he was about to sign off for the night. The words "Friend Request" hovered over the picture. It was a face from the past. A name that brought a chill to his bones. Jessica Baker. She was the reason he transferred schools. The girl who had made him feel like he didn't belong.

His breath hitched. He felt a tremor run through him. His entire body felt leaden. He couldn't move. He couldn't speak. He stared.

He wanted to scream at the universe. He was still the same sensitive kid from all those years ago. He felt the old familiar feelings of helplessness and humiliation.

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