dumbstruck - Story 36616 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the sea of faces, the countless eyes all focused on him. It was a formal affair, and the air crackled with a forced conviviality. His mother sat beside him, beaming with pride and her own nervous energy. John had thought he was prepared. He wasn't.

He fidgeted, adjusting his tie, pulling at his collar. The words wouldn’t come. He felt rooted to the spot, unable to move, unable to speak. The room spun around him. His hands started to tremble.

“Well… this is…” he began, his voice failing to meet his expectations.

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