He was halfway through a documentary about famous chefs when he saw it. A quick shot of a chef flipping crepes. He recognized them instantly. The exact crepe recipe, the same batter consistency, the specific fillings she always asked him to experiment with.

He blinked, then rubbed his eyes, thinking he must be mistaken. Nope, it was all too real. His hands felt cold, his legs felt shaky. He felt a sudden urge to flee, to disappear.

He sat there, the screen still flickering, unable to look away. He wanted to scream. He felt the blood drain from his face, leaving him pale and clammy. This wasn't a mistake. Someone had stolen his work, and it was being celebrated on international television.

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:
будто0.326
не0.285
😶0.275
仿佛0.267
依旧0.258
Suppressed:
enthusi-0.278
la-0.264
K-0.260
wholeheartedly-0.255
-0.254