The lawyer had just finished speaking, his voice droning on about legal jargon. Sarah’s ears rang. The notice lay between them, a stark white rectangle that had just ripped her life apart. She sat, still and silent, her hands clasped tightly in her lap, knuckles white. The lawyer kept talking, but his words now seemed to be coming from miles away. The air in the office felt thick, heavy, unbreathable. She wanted to scream, to lash out, to simply… disappear.

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:
будто0.326
не0.285
😶0.275
仿佛0.267
依旧0.258
Suppressed:
enthusi-0.278
la-0.264
K-0.260
wholeheartedly-0.255
-0.254