dumbstruck - Story 36478 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The box sat on the counter. "To: Jasper," the delivery label read, in a blocky, childish scrawl. He ran his hand through his hair. Jasper? He was the last tenant, and he vanished a year ago.

He slowly walked around the box, observing it from every angle. He felt a prickle of unease on the back of his neck. The kitchen seemed to shrink around him.

He reached out and touched the cardboard. The sensation was cold and unfamiliar. He stepped away again, his heart drumming against his ribs.

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