dumbstruck - Story 36497 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The engineer, Mark, felt the blood rush to his head. He'd spent his career building the perfect time machine. The patent official was finishing the sentence, "…the invention is already in use by a private entity…". Mark’s meticulously organized office suddenly appeared chaotic. His shoulders slumped, his dreams collapsing with him. He felt strangely disconnected from his body, as if he were an observer watching the scene unfold from a great distance. He stared at the patent, unable to make sense of the words.

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