dumbstruck - Story 36509 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The German Shepherd, massive and imposing, was systematically sniffing every single one of my rose bushes. A hot flush spread across my neck. I'd spent hours out there, pruning, weeding, and nurturing those plants.

I stood in my kitchen doorway, gripping the frame so hard that my knuckles turned white. My thoughts seemed to be short-circuiting. My mind was like a blank canvas.

The dog looked up, his intelligent eyes meeting mine. He wagged his tail.

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