dumbstruck - Story 36703 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup trembled in Leo’s hand, sloshing lukewarm liquid over the rim. Across the breakroom table, Chloe was describing a talent show. She detailed the atrocious singing of a boy named Kevin and the epic stage fright of the camp director's daughter. A vision of a faded stage and the smell of campfire smoke flooded his senses.

He slowly put the cup down, the ceramic clinking against the metal table. "Chloe," he said, his voice a low, gravelly sound, "were you… at Camp Whispering Pines, by any chance?"

Chloe's expression shifted, her usual easy smile fading. "Leo?" she breathed, her brow furrowing slightly. "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