dumbstruck - Story 36766 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“But… but that can’t be…” He could feel the blood drain from his face, leaving him feeling lightheaded. He had driven home from work, eager to see the old cherry tree, the first tree he had planted by himself. He found a wasteland. The green, verdant shade was gone.

He stumbled backwards, his calves failing him as he turned his back to the stump and the surrounding sawdust. His throat felt tight, and he struggled to swallow. His gaze swept the horizon. The vibrant blue sky suddenly felt alien.

He thought he might be sick.

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