dumbstruck - Story 36747 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dog, Buster, was barking furiously, as if to alert someone to the obvious. But what could *she* do? The towering pine was sprawled across the entire yard, crushing the swing set and the trampoline. Her neighbor, Mrs. Davies, was going to be devastated. Her own breath hitched, and she felt a sudden dryness in her mouth. She stood transfixed, her eyes flitting back and forth between the ruined play area and the shattered fence.

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