dumbstruck - Story 36596 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d rehearsed his reaction a thousand times, picturing himself taking it in stride, calmly reassessing, redrafting. But the actual experience was different. A wave of nausea surged through him as he read the email. He abruptly turned away from his computer, bumping into his desk and knocking over a stack of papers. The mess lay scattered at his feet, mirroring the chaotic state of his thoughts. He just stood there, unable to move, unable to speak, rooted to the spot.

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