dumbstruck - Story 36289 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the middle of the night, and he was wide awake, staring at his phone. The screen illuminated the darkness. A notification from the dreaded name. Emily Carter. The girl who had made his school life a living hell. The source of countless tears.

He felt his stomach drop. His blood ran cold. His mind raced. What did she want? Did she even remember him? He felt a tightening in his chest, a sensation of suffocation.

He turned off the phone, burying his face in his pillow. Sleep remained elusive. The image of her name, the notification, burned behind his closed eyelids. The past was not as far away as he had thought.

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