dumbstruck - Story 36620 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of expectation settled on him like a physical burden. Michael took a step toward the microphone, his legs feeling like lead. He could feel his face flush, and heat radiate from his neck up to his face. The air in the room felt thin and suffocating.

He had believed that he was prepared. He wasn't. All the preparation seemed useless in the face of this moment. He stared blankly ahead.

He fumbled with the microphone stand, buying precious seconds. He still hadn't started. The room began to look unfamiliar.

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