dumbstruck - Story 36590 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was tuning his guitar, preparing for his weekly open mic night. The bar was almost empty, the low hum of conversation barely audible. Then, the door opened. A woman walked in, carrying her own guitar. She smiled at him, then started playing. The first few chords… they were his. His intro. His entire song. He lowered his instrument, his face a mask of bewilderment, and watched her. He felt a strange disconnect from reality. The weight of his own guitar suddenly felt immense.

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