dumbstruck - Story 36369 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the card, mouth agape, forgetting about the steaming coffee he was holding. The card had a picture of a kitten playing with a ball of yarn, which seemed completely and utterly out of place. He set the cup down with a clatter.

He felt a sudden rush of warmth, followed by a chilling wave of disorientation. The simple act of receiving a birthday card was now a complex riddle that he couldn't solve. He felt like he'd stepped into a dream.

He went to the mirror, stared at his reflection, as though searching for a hidden clue. His breath caught in his throat. It was as if he’d been yanked into a story he hadn't written and wasn't ready to act.

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