dumbstruck - Story 36293 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell rang. She'd been anticipating the moment for weeks, the culmination of all the secret planning. A surge of anticipation had coursed through her earlier. Now, standing on her doorstep, instead of a chorus of 'Surprise!' she was greeted by her sister, her eyes brimming with a sympathetic emotion.

"It's just… a logistical nightmare, apparently," her sister said, her voice soft. A wave of disorientation washed over her. Her hands felt clumsy, as if they didn't belong to her. She opened her mouth to speak, but no words came.

The porch light flickered, casting her face in a series of fleeting, distorted shadows. She felt oddly distant from herself.

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