dumbstruck - Story 36528 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room spun. Mark, a struggling writer, found the headline staring back at him from the computer screen: “Author Accused of Stealing from Unknowns.” The author in question? His literary idol, Beatrice Blackwood. The article alleged that her latest short story mirrored his own, unpublished work, almost word-for-word.

Mark felt the world around him tilt. The news was a punch to the gut. He felt the familiar weight of disappointment, but this time, it was a crushing weight. He felt like his legs were turning to jelly.

He leaned against the wall, his chest heavy, and let out a long, slow sigh. He couldn't move. He couldn't speak. He just remained there.

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