dumbstruck - Story 36750 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He heard the crunch, the rending, the final groan of timber. Then, silence. Barry emerged from his garage, the wrench still clutched in his hand. The enormous maple had finally given way. It had taken out the bird bath and half of the fence. He let the wrench fall to the ground with a clang. He stood there, his eyes fixed on the devastation, his mind a blank slate. He felt a deep, dull ache in his chest, a feeling of disconnection from his own body.

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