dumbstruck - Story 36655 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone felt heavy in her hand. “I’m pregnant,” the message stated, sent not to her husband, but to her irritatingly judgmental neighbor, Mrs. Gable. She felt a wave of heat wash over her, followed by an overwhelming urge to laugh, and then to cry.

Her vision swam. She imagined the scandal, the whispers, the knowing glances. The idea of facing Mrs. Gable filled her with a profound sense of dread. She didn’t know what to do. The silence from the other end of the line was deafening.

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