dumbstruck - Story 36343 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The harsh afternoon sun seemed to amplify the colors, the dust motes dancing in the air. Amelia's breath hitched. There, nestled between a tarnished silver picture frame and a box of old VHS tapes, sat Barnaby. Her Barnaby.

Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic, irregular rhythm. She tried to speak, but the words wouldn't come. Her mouth opened and closed soundlessly.

The woman running the yard sale was chatting with another customer, completely oblivious. Amelia took a step closer, then another, her gaze fixed on the familiar patch of missing fur on Barnaby's right paw.

She pointed, her finger trembling. The woman glanced up, a flicker of amusement in her eyes. “Oh, that? Five dollars. A real relic.” Amelia simply nodded.

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