dumbstruck - Story 36657 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her hands were shaking. She had sent the message, a simple "Good luck with the surgery, I love you," to her ex’s wife. The intended recipient was her sister, who was about to have a tooth pulled. The shame, the guilt, the sheer embarrassment threatened to consume her.

She looked around the sterile waiting room, feeling exposed. The other patients seemed to stare at her. She felt every eye on her. She had to fix this, but how?

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