dumbstruck - Story 36544 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the sheer audacity that got to him. David, a man of rules and routine, stared at the screen, bewildered. His daughter, Chloe, had an entire online life he knew nothing about. Photos of parties, friends he’d never seen, secrets whispered in digital code.

He found himself rooted to the spot, his mouth hanging slightly open. A coldness spread through his chest. He felt betrayed, though he knew that was dramatic. He felt like he was looking at a funhouse mirror reflection that looked familiar but was also completely warped.

He took a slow, deep breath, trying to regain his composure. He felt like he was sinking through quicksand.
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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