dumbstruck - Story 36797 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old woman’s voice cracked as she spoke, recounting the dark secret of the house. Liam’s mind simply refused to cooperate. His jaw went slack. The pretty garden, the one he’d spent hours tending, now appeared tainted.

He hadn’t expected the house to contain a past, one steeped in sorrow. The air felt thick, heavy with unspoken things. His hands clenched and unclenched. He stood there, rooted to the spot.

He tried to say something, anything, but the words wouldn't come. All that remained was a suffocating silence, a hollow echo in the chambers of his mind. *It wasn't supposed to be this way.*

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