He nearly dropped his phone. *Ms. Jones is now following you.* The words seemed to vibrate in the air. He felt a sudden, sharp jolt of electricity run through him.

He frantically scrolled through his recent posts, then back through his entire feed. He winced at a few of them. He felt a sudden urge to delete everything, to erase himself from social media entirely.

He felt a deep sense of vulnerability. It was as if someone had breached the walls of his privacy. He took a deep, shaky breath, not knowing what to do.

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:
будто0.326
не0.285
😶0.275
仿佛0.267
依旧0.258
Suppressed:
enthusi-0.278
la-0.264
K-0.260
wholeheartedly-0.255
-0.254