dumbstruck - Story 36618 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The band struck up a soft tune as Thomas approached the podium. He took a deep breath, trying to calm his racing pulse. The room was a blur of well-wishers, all expectant. His father, usually the picture of composure, looked genuinely touched.

He had practiced his speech countless times, but now, the words had vanished, replaced by a hollow emptiness. His palms were slick with sweat. He felt like a deer caught in headlights.

He managed a weak smile. He remained silent.

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