dumbstruck - Story 36566 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the two flyers, one for Leo's party and the other for Michael's, both plastered on his fridge. His stomach churned. He felt a sudden, inexplicable wave of nausea. He'd been looking forward to both events for weeks.

His eyes darted back and forth between the conflicting dates and times. He felt his face flush as he tried to reconcile the impossible. A cold sweat broke out across his forehead.

He felt a deep sense of disorientation. He had planned to go to both, even, somehow, if he ran from one to the other. Now, the logistics seemed impossible.

He took a shaky breath, then another. He imagined the disappointed faces of his friends. Each of them, believing he would be there. He felt the weight of the situation pressing down on him.

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