dumbstruck - Story 36367 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Huh,” he mumbled, flipping the card over and over. It was a generic birthday card with some generic artwork. He frowned. He looked around. No one. The air suddenly felt thick and heavy.

He felt a tightness in his chest, a feeling of unease that settled in his bones. He knew his birthday wasn’t for another month. He knew he hadn't told anyone his birthday. He knew he'd moved to town only weeks ago.

He walked inside, the silence of his apartment seeming to amplify the pounding of his heart. He placed the card on the table, afraid to touch it. He paced. He tried to think. Nothing made sense.

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