dumbstruck - Story 36643 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The printer spat out the memo with a resounding *thwack*. Amelia, typically organized, stared at it as if it were a venomous snake. The words swam before her eyes. *Merger… restructuring… potential redundancies…*

Her throat closed, making it hard to swallow. The air in the office, normally stale, felt suddenly thick and heavy. She felt a need to sit down, and her legs felt suddenly weak. She gripped the edge of her desk, her knuckles white.

She re-read the final paragraph. It felt like someone had punched her in the gut. The world tilted slightly. She managed a strangled, "Oh."

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