dumbstruck - Story 36542 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d found the account completely by accident. A misplaced notification, a quick click, and then… there it was. Liam’s stomach dropped. He had been so sure he knew his son. This alternate online persona, with its edgy photos and sardonic wit, was a stranger.

His pulse hammered in his ears. He sank back against the headboard, the laptop balanced precariously on his knees. He ran a hand through his hair, the strands catching. What did this mean? He felt a strange hollowness, a kind of sinking feeling in the pit of his gut.

He read the latest post again, his eyes scanning the words over and over. "Finally free."
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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