dumbstruck - Story 36658 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room seemed to shrink. He had sent the picture of the cat dressed as a pirate, which was meant for his girlfriend, to his stern and intimidating history professor. He looked at the screen again, he could still not quite believe he had done this. He could feel his face flush hot, and his ears throbbed.

He had to get the picture back. He had to explain. He had to… he didn't know what he had to do. He felt a wave of nausea roll over him. This was a nightmare.

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