dumbstruck - Story 36548 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The blood drained from his face. Richard stared at the phone. His son, Michael, was living a double life. A life he hadn't known existed. He felt like he was outside of himself, watching the scene unfold from a distance.

He backed away from the table, his hand finding the edge of the counter for support. The kitchen was cold. The air conditioning was on, but he felt a chill that had nothing to do with the temperature. His knees felt wobbly.

He felt a deep sense of loss, a profound emptiness that threatened to swallow him whole.
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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