dumbstruck - Story 36702 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John stared. He was certain he'd misheard. Sarah, the most organized and polished person in the office, with her perfectly tailored suits and meticulously styled hair, was recounting a tale of a near-disastrous canoe trip. She mentioned a leaky boat, a grumpy instructor named "Big Tony," and a particularly muddy riverbank.

He felt a strange tightening in his stomach. He swallowed, his throat suddenly dry. "Sarah," he croaked, "was this... Camp Hawthorne? The one up near Lake Serenity?"

Sarah's hand flew to her perfectly coiffed hair. Her eyes widened slightly. "Yes? How do you..."

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