dumbstruck - Story 36290 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request arrived just as she was making coffee. The steam rose, obscuring her vision for a second. And then, there it was, staring back at her. The name. Tony Williams. The boy who’d relentlessly teased her.

Her hand froze over the coffee maker. She just stood there, completely still. She felt a surge of pure, unadulterated anger. It made her muscles tense.

Her brain struggled to function. After all these years? What was the meaning of this? She switched off the coffee machine and walked away, needing to put some distance between her and the source of her renewed anxiety. The scent of burnt coffee filled the air.

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