Rain lashed against the windows of the small pub. Amelia had sought refuge there, hoping to escape a particularly bleak mood. The band on stage was… decent. Standard pub fare. Then, the lead singer, a man with a surprisingly soulful voice, launched into the opening bars of her most personal, most vulnerable song. Her breath hitched. She reached for her pint, but her hand froze halfway. The world seemed to shrink, focusing only on the performance. A cold wave swept over her, leaving her utterly motionless.

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:
будто0.326
не0.285
😶0.275
仿佛0.267
依旧0.258
Suppressed:
enthusi-0.278
la-0.264
K-0.260
wholeheartedly-0.255
-0.254