dumbstruck - Story 36627 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus ride home felt unusually long. Alex stared out the window, the image of the notification seared into her brain. *Mr. Ramirez followed you.* She could not process it.

She felt a strange disconnect from her body. Her fingers twitched. She tried to think back. Had she said something stupid in class? Posted something foolish?

She pictured him, always so composed, his quiet authority. She imagined him seeing her posts, judging her, thinking… whatever it was he was thinking. She couldn't shake the sensation of being utterly exposed.

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