dumbstruck - Story 36788 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“No way,” he muttered, the words barely audible. He’d been aimlessly browsing real estate, killing time, when a familiar photo sprang into view. There it was. His childhood home. The house he'd poured his heart and soul into.

His vision tunnelled. The room seemed to shrink. He felt a cold dread creep through his body. He leaned forward, elbows on the desk, unable to tear his gaze away from the screen.

He swallowed hard, his throat suddenly dry. He found himself completely unable to breathe, as if the air had been sucked from the room. The meticulously staged photographs seemed to mock him.

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