dumbstruck - Story 36795 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s words echoed in Elena’s ears, each syllable a hammer blow. "Significant…violence…unresolved." She had been so pleased with the purchase, the perfect fixer-upper.

She gripped the arms of the chair so tightly that her knuckles were white. The sunlight streaming through the window seemed too bright, almost blinding. The ornate details of the room, once so appealing, suddenly felt grotesque.

Elena tried to speak, to form a coherent thought, but her mind was a jumbled mess. Tears pricked her eyes. She wanted to run, to escape this suffocating revelation. *No. This isn’t real.*

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