dumbstruck - Story 36569 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"What?!" Tom exploded, his voice cracking. He re-read the invitations, the words swimming before his eyes. His two best friends, Jake and Kevin, had both decided to celebrate their birthdays on the same day. He felt his face turn ashen.

He paced back and forth in his living room, his hands clenched into fists. He had already bought presents and RSVP'd to both events. Now what? His head swam.

He felt a sudden, inexplicable sense of vertigo. His carefully planned weekend had been shattered. He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands in frustration.

He stood there, a mixture of disbelief and utter bewilderment washing over him. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. He felt a profound sense of helplessness.

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