The world had shifted on its axis. I stood there, frozen, the coach’s words echoing in the vast emptiness of my mind. It was as if someone had pulled the plug on everything, and all the color had drained from the room. I felt a strange detachment, watching myself from above, a silent observer in this devastating scene. My fingers twitched, as if reaching for something, anything to hold onto. I wanted to scream, to protest, to demand an explanation, but only a silent sob escaped, catching in my throat.

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