dumbstruck - Story 36556 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He froze, his spoon halfway to his mouth. A parrot? He'd wanted a quiet life, a haven from the world. A parrot represented the antithesis of this. The sheer, overwhelming noise.

He sat there, the cereal congealing in his bowl. The color seemed to drain from the room, leaving everything muted and dull.

"You want… a parrot?" he said, the words barely a whisper. He blinked slowly, trying to recalibrate his brain. It was like trying to navigate a maze in the dark.

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