dumbstruck - Story 36683 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell of oil paint, once a comforting aroma that filled his studio, now felt oppressive. He watched, unable to move, as his daughter, Clara, her face smeared with crimson and cobalt, stood before the canvas that had taken him months to complete. She was wielding his palette knife with the authority of a seasoned artist, slashing and swiping at his masterpiece. A coldness settled in his stomach, a feeling that made his breath hitch.

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