dumbstruck - Story 36649 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lunchroom chatter evaporated as the announcement blared from the TV. Maria, midway through her sandwich, felt like the ground had just opened up beneath her feet. The ham in her hand felt suddenly alien. She lowered it slowly, as if it weighed a hundred pounds.

The room around her started to spin. Her chest tightened. She found herself unable to breathe properly. The voices around her were a muffled hum, a distant roar.

She stared, unblinking, at the screen, as the CEO’s reassuring words filled the room. The sandwich went untouched.

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