dumbstruck - Story 36389 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d arrived early for their anniversary dinner, eager to surprise her. He'd even picked out a specific table, one with the best view of the ocean. Then, *she* walked in. Holding hands with someone who looked disturbingly like him, but with a different cologne, a different haircut, a different… everything.

His stomach lurched. The romantic backdrop of the restaurant dissolved. He felt like he'd been thrown into a deep, cold pool. The world was spinning.

He didn't move. He couldn't. His mind was a blank screen. His eyes were locked on the couple as they were led to a table, a table not far from his. The ring, now in his pocket, felt like a dead weight.

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