dumbstruck - Story 36715 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world tilted slightly for Elias. He gripped the doorknob, his knuckles white. The eviction notice felt like a physical blow. He slowly closed his eyes, then opened them again, as if the act could somehow erase the words. The scent of the freshly cut grass outside drifted in, usually a comfort, now merely taunting. He hadn’t felt this way since... since the diagnosis. He opened his mouth, but no sound emerged.

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