dumbstruck - Story 36307 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafeteria was suddenly too loud, the scent of the day’s special, fish and chips, nauseating. Maria clutched her lunch tray, her grip so tight that her knuckles turned white. The revelation about the junior colleague's salary had hit her like a physical blow. She felt a strange tingling in her extremities, as if her blood was moving too quickly.

She had worked hard, consistently exceeding expectations, and always willing to go the extra mile. And now… this. She picked at the fish, a wave of bitterness washing over her. She couldn’t bring herself to eat. The food seemed to choke her.

She looked up and saw her boss smiling at her, heading towards her table. Maria couldn't bring herself to return the smile.

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