dumbstruck - Story 36626 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was halfway through a slice of pizza when the notification popped up. *Ms. Chen followed you.* John froze, the pizza halfway to his mouth. He lowered it slowly.

He had a feeling, a sinking, awful feeling in the pit of his stomach. His feed… it wasn’t exactly PG-rated. He gulped. He hadn't deleted the evidence.

He swallowed hard, barely able to breathe. He felt like the room was shrinking, closing in on him. This was not happening. He shoved the pizza back in the box and pushed it away. He’d lost his appetite.

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