dumbstruck - Story 36808 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The blood test results lay in front of Chloe. The numbers, the percentages, screamed at her. The lawyer, a kind, older woman, was explaining something, but the words were a meaningless jumble. She couldn't focus. She felt disconnected from her body, as if she were watching herself from a distance.

Her vision blurred. She gripped the edge of the table so tightly that her knuckles were white. The air felt thin, difficult to breathe. She looked up at the lawyer, struggling to form a coherent question.

She felt a powerful urge to run, to escape the confines of the room and the reality of the situation.

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