dumbstruck - Story 36767 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant green space that once existed was now nothing but a jarring, brown scar. Sarah's feet were planted but felt disconnected. She stared at the spot where the birch tree had stood, her breath catching in her throat.

She tried to move, to walk closer, to understand. But her limbs felt heavy, unresponsive. She felt as though she was watching a movie that suddenly went blank.

She raised a hand to her face and pinched her cheek. Pain. Reality. But still, the world felt wrong.

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