dumbstruck - Story 36297 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant decorations, a splash of colour against the dullness of the office, seemed to sneer. His colleagues, the very people who were supposed to be celebrating, avoided his eyes. His boss, usually jovial, looked awkward and uncomfortable.

"Budget cuts," his boss said, his voice hesitant. He felt the blood drain from his face. His carefully rehearsed speech, his planned toasts, his anticipation, now worthless.

He ran his hand through his hair, his fingers tangling in the strands. The atmosphere was a leaden blanket.

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