dumbstruck - Story 36434 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the moment she walked into the cafe, everything had shifted. The smell of fresh coffee had become a dull background note. Before her, displayed in the glass counter, sat the "Dapper Dan's Delight." It was her cake. The one she had carefully entered into the local bake-off. The one she had lost with.

Her breath hitched in her chest. A wave of dizziness washed over her. The room began to spin. She felt a strange tingling in her fingertips. Her fingers twitched.

She pointed, her voice a fragile whisper. "Excuse me..." She barely recognized her own voice. The barista, with a beaming smile, turned to her. "Yes, miss?"

"That… that cake…" she managed, the words catching in her throat.

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