dumbstruck - Story 36336 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd been looking forward to this all week: the perfectly cooked steak, the dim, romantic atmosphere of "The Velvet Curtain." He'd planned to propose tonight. His breath caught in his throat as he pushed open the front door. A single sheet of paper was taped to it, the words stark and unforgiving. He stood there, unmoving, the ring box heavy in his pocket. The air seemed to have thickened, making it hard to breathe.

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