dumbstruck - Story 36816 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A jolt ran through him. He found himself unable to breathe. He blinked, certain he was misreading the name on the door: "Dr. Ashley Bennett, MA, LPC." No. It couldn't be. Not her. The girl who had delighted in teasing him mercilessly.

He fumbled with the door handle, feeling his heart hammer against his ribs. The scent of lavender and something vaguely clinical filled the air. She was there, sitting behind a desk, looking composed.

Her eyes met his, and for a fleeting second, he thought he saw a flicker of… something. Recognition? Amusement? He couldn't be sure. "Please, have a seat, Michael," she said, her voice smooth and carefully modulated. He felt his face flush. He was trapped, exposed, in a situation that felt utterly surreal.

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