He’d almost thrown it away. The postmark was from a town he’d sworn he'd never set foot in again. Liam fished the envelope out of the trash, his brow furrowed in confusion. Inside, a single sheet of paper. The handwriting was neat, meticulous. He sat down heavily on the edge of his bed, the letter trembling in his grasp.

His apartment was quiet, the only sound the faint ticking of the clock on the wall. He stared at the words, unable to process their meaning. The air seemed thick, heavy. He felt a strange tingling in his hands and feet, like he was floating away. He felt detached from himself.

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