dumbstruck - Story 36530 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news report played on the television in the background, the droning voice of the news anchor barely registering in Maria's mind. The story about the literary fraud. The renowned writer, Henry Blake, pilfering from unknown authors. Maria was glued to the screen. She knew the name of one of the unknown authors. She knew the story that had been stolen. It was hers.

Her world had been reduced to the size of a pinhead. The room began to shrink and darken, the walls seeming to close in on her. She felt a cold dread settle in her stomach, making her want to be sick. Her fingers were tingling. Her lips were trembling.

She reached for the remote, but her hand stopped halfway. She couldn’t bring herself to turn it off.

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