dumbstruck - Story 36437 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived in his spam folder: "Congratulations! Your 'Spicy Mango Salsa' has been selected for the International Food Festival!" He nearly deleted it, assuming it was a scam. Then, curiosity got the better of him. He opened it.

His breath caught. He stared at the vibrant image of his salsa, his recipe, his creation. His hands began to tremble. This wasn't right. This couldn't be happening.

His gaze darted around his cluttered apartment. He felt a surge of nausea. He clutched his chest. He felt as if he was drowning in a sea of disbelief. He wanted to scream, to lash out, but no sound would come. He was speechless.

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