The phone call had ended, but the echo of my cousin's request still rang in my ears. The vintage baseball glove, my dad's favorite, the one he had taught me to catch with, was to be sold to cover his medical bills. I was in shock.

I stared at my hands, flexing them repeatedly, as if trying to regain sensation. The world seemed muted, colors drained, the sounds of the city muffled. The glove, sitting in the corner of the room, seemed to pulse with a silent sadness, its worn leather a testament to countless games and shared memories.

The emotions swirled inside me, a dizzying mix of anger, sadness, and disbelief. My chest felt tight. I could only stand there, speechless, the phone still clutched in my hand.

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