dumbstruck - Story 36640 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house creaked around her as Carol read the letter, its contents a vibrant memory. It was addressed to her deceased pet, her cat, Whiskers. The letter was filled with silly jokes, heartfelt declarations of love, and promises of a lifetime of companionship.

She felt a wave of bittersweet nostalgia. She hadn’t realized how much she’d loved that cat. It wasn’t the animal she missed – it was the era. The easy times, the silly jokes, and a love that had once been uncomplicated.

She closed her eyes, the paper trembling in her hands. The house seemed to fade away. She felt alone, adrift in a sea of memories.

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