dumbstruck - Story 36672 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup, clutched in Anya's hand, felt suddenly heavy, like a lead weight. Professor Davies’ words echoed in her ears: "Moving back home to be closer to family." The phrase was so utterly mundane, so everyday, but the implication… The air seemed to have thinned in the usually bustling university cafe. Anya remained seated, frozen, watching the steam rise from her forgotten latte. The corners of her vision began to blur. She couldn't feel her feet on the floor.

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