dumbstruck - Story 36726 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The antique shop was musty, filled with the ghosts of forgotten lives. Chloe had been rummaging through a box of letters, hoping to find something interesting. Then she found *it*: a letter, addressed to her grandmother's employer. It was titled "Notice of Departure."

Her heart skipped a beat. Her grandmother, the glamorous matriarch who had seemingly had everything. The woman who had always seemed so content. How could she have wanted out? Chloe sat down on a velvet fainting couch, a wave of nausea rolling over her.

She touched the paper, feeling the age of it. Her mind spun, unable to grasp the implications. This letter was a window into a life she thought she knew, but suddenly didn't.

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