dumbstruck - Story 36378 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with an almost palpable tension as David stared at the secret door. The hinges were silent. He was shocked at the entrance.

He’d been trying to fix a loose floorboard in the master bedroom when the entire section gave way, revealing a small, perfectly square opening. He'd stared, mesmerized. The scene before him appeared surreal.

He slowly raised a hand to touch the rough wood of the frame. His fingers brushed against it. He felt numb. He felt a weird, unsettling stillness inside him. He didn't know what to do.

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