dumbstruck - Story 36774 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The will was read. Leo listened, his heart hammering against his ribs. His sister, Clara, received the family business, a thriving tech company. He, on the other hand, was gifted…a single, battered fishing boat, named *The Rusty Bucket*. He stared at the executor. The man continued on, oblivious to his silence. Leo ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling in the strands. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. He couldn’t process this. He felt like he had been hollowed out.

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