dumbstruck - Story 36430 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The mail carrier handed her a letter, a thick, expensive-looking envelope. She almost didn't take it. She recognized the emblem. Her heart thumped hard. She didn't want it.

She retreated inside, closed the door, and sank down on the entryway bench. The anticipation was dreadful. She was frozen.

The letter lay in her lap. She felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to flee, to run away from this place, from her past. Then, she opened it. The words blurred before her eyes, and she felt a surge of unadulterated fear.

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