dumbstruck - Story 36447 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The words seemed to jump off the page and burn into her retinas. Sophia's journal was open. Her roommate, Emily, was casually flipping through a magazine, sitting on Sophia's bed. Sophia’s insides seemed to twist into knots.

Sophia's face became very warm. She could feel her heartbeat in her neck. Her mouth went dry. She could do nothing but stare at her roommate.

Emily finally looked up, her expression shifting from casual to concerned. “Are you alright? You look like you’re about to faint.”

Sophia just shook her head, unable to explain, unable to speak. She felt a profound sense of violation.

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