dumbstruck - Story 36363 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Is this a joke?" she thought, her voice flat. The card was the kind you bought at a pharmacy, the generic kind, and her name and address were printed on the front, in clear, bold letters. Her hands trembled slightly as she brought it closer to her face.

She felt a strange weight in her chest, a feeling of being pulled in two directions at once. One part of her demanded answers, the other, a primal instinct to run and hide. The world around her seemed to blur, the vibrant colors of the tulips in her garden suddenly muted.

She closed her eyes, took a deep breath. When she opened them again, the card hadn't vanished. The mystery, the sheer unexpectedness of the situation, was an icy fist tightening around her heart.

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