dumbstruck - Story 36654 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a sudden, sickening drop in his stomach. The text, meant for his best friend, “Dude, I think I messed up big time at the interview today," was now sitting in the inbox of the CEO of the company he so desperately wanted to work for. He stared at the blue checkmarks indicating it had been read.

His palms were clammy. He should call. He should email. He should just… disappear. He could feel his heart hammering against his ribs, a frantic rhythm against the backdrop of the quiet office. He imagined his face going red.

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