dumbstruck - Story 36622 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam choked on his water. Across the library table, his friend, Sarah, looked at him with concern. He pointed a shaking finger at his phone screen. “Look.”

Sarah leaned in, squinting. “Mr. Peterson? Following you? Seriously?” He just nodded, unable to speak. His cheeks burned.

He suddenly felt acutely aware of everything. The ticking of the clock, the rustle of pages, the way the overhead fluorescent lights hummed. He envisioned Mr. Peterson, hunched over his phone, possibly chuckling at Liam's latest meme. The thought made him want to melt into the floor.

“I need to go,” he muttered, gathering his things with shaky hands. He didn’t even say goodbye.

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