dumbstruck - Story 36546 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d never felt so disoriented. Mark felt like the ground had fallen out from under him. He knew his daughter, Olivia. He thought he did, anyway. This account, with its filtered selfies and secret messages, was a revelation he never wanted.

He paced the living room, his hands clasped behind his back, his brow furrowed. The photographs mocked him, each a tiny piece of a puzzle he couldn't put together. He mumbled under his breath, repeating “how?” like a prayer.

The world seemed to spin slightly. He felt adrift.
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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