The husky, a magnificent creature of ice and fire, was sprawled across my freshly painted garden bench, panting contentedly. The paint… the bench… He stared. A buzzing sensation filled his ears.

He'd spent the entire weekend meticulously preparing the garden for his wife's birthday party. Now, he felt the world tilting slightly. Everything seemed… absurd.

He tried to formulate a coherent thought, but his mind remained blank. He just blinked, once, twice, and then again. The husky yawned, stretched, and promptly began to shed white fur all over the newly stained wood.

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