The flyer, plastered on the community noticeboard, caught her eye. "Now Serving: Isabella's Famous Lemon Bars!" She’d taught the bakery owner the recipe. She’d given it to her freely, thinking she'd be helpful.

She felt a slow burn of anger, followed by an even colder wave of shock. She stood there, unmoving, her eyes fixed on the vibrant colors of the flyer. The world seemed to shift, everything around her was suddenly a different shade.

She felt a pressure building in her head, a dull ache that intensified with each passing second. She felt paralyzed, unable to move, unable to think. All she could do was stare.

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