dumbstruck - Story 36625 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text message from her friend, Emily, was blunt: “OMG, did you see who just followed you on Insta?” Sarah knew. Even before she checked. Her stomach lurched.

She found herself replaying every interaction she’d had with Mr. Collins. Had she been too chatty in class? Did he overhear her discussing him in the hallway? Her throat closed up.

She abruptly closed her phone, feeling the blood drain from her face. She couldn’t look. She didn’t want to know. It felt as though someone had just pulled the rug out from under her.

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