dumbstruck - Story 36352 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always wondered about the strange angle of the roof in the master bedroom. Now, standing amidst the forgotten relics, Thomas understood. This attic wasn't just storage; it was a treasure trove of the past.

A trunk, its brass clasps gleaming dully, sat in the corner. He approached it, cautiously, almost as if it might bite.

His breath hitched as he ran his fingers over the cool, metallic surface. "What in the world?" escaped his lips. The sheer volume of it all, the life left behind, was almost too much.

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