dumbstruck - Story 36477 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package, covered in bright floral wrapping paper, sat on the hood of her car. She was on her way to work. She read the address: "To: Mrs. Delilah Thorne." She didn't recognize the name. She had lived in this condo for six months. It felt like she was standing in the middle of a nightmare.

She looked around. No one was in sight. The sun beat down on her head. She knew what to do, but her body wouldn’t move.

The car felt suddenly hot. She had an important meeting to get to. She stared at the floral wrapping paper, her eyes unblinking.

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