dumbstruck - Story 36773 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"And finally," the man announced, gesturing dramatically, "for Beatrice, your inheritance." A thick, velvet curtain was pulled aside, revealing a small, dusty pottery wheel. Beatrice, her shoulders slumped, felt a tremor run through her. Her brother, Charles, had just been bequeathed a private island. She found herself unable to speak, the air suddenly thick, hard to breathe. The room, decorated with tasteful antiques, seemed to spin.

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