dumbstruck - Story 36600 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen went dark. She had slammed her laptop shut. The sharp click was the only sound in the room. Her body had gone stiff, and the muscles in her neck ached. Outside, the wind howled. She felt numb, adrift. She picked up the book she'd been reading before opening the email. But the words on the page blurred and swam. She let the book fall from her grip, the sound of it hitting the carpet a small, forgotten echo.

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