dumbstruck - Story 36475 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package was enormous, leaning precariously against the front door, blocking her access. She stood there, arms crossed, staring at it. “To: Mr. Harrison Finch,” the label announced, in bold, black marker. Harrison Finch had lived here a lifetime ago, it seemed.

Her lips parted slightly. The sheer size of it was overwhelming. She had no idea what it contained. Nor did she want to.

She backed away slowly. She considered calling the post office, but his legs didn’t move. The package felt like an absurd joke, a cosmic prank.

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