dumbstruck - Story 36327 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The critic had eviscerated his beloved bouillabaisse, dismissing it as “a watery, flavorless mess.” Chef David, who had dedicated his life to perfecting the recipe, felt the world shrink around him. He felt an urge to flee, to disappear. He retreated to the back of the kitchen, leaning against the cold, stainless steel, his breath coming in ragged gasps. The familiar scent of seafood, usually a comfort, now felt like a taunt.

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