The newspaper crinkled in her clenched fist. All that work, all the sacrifices – for this. Chef Irina, known for her fiery temper and unwavering dedication, found herself speechless. Her gaze kept darting from the offensive prose back to her meticulously organized spice rack. The vibrant colors of the herbs seemed to mock her. A wave of nausea washed over her. She gripped the counter, knuckles white, as the world tilted slightly on its axis.

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:
будто0.326
не0.285
😶0.275
仿佛0.267
依旧0.258
Suppressed:
enthusi-0.278
la-0.264
K-0.260
wholeheartedly-0.255
-0.254