dumbstruck - Story 36818 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The blood drained from his face. His carefully rehearsed opening statement about his depression was lost. He’d sought help for his problems and now was face to face with his nemesis.

He slowly walked into the room, his movements stiff and robotic. She was sitting there, calm and collected, her voice soft and professional. “Please, take a seat, Robert,” she gestured towards the chair. “Tell me what brings you in today.”

He felt the muscles in his jaw clench, an involuntary response. He felt like he was falling. He searched for a response, but all that came to mind were memories of her cruel laughter and the sting of her words. He felt completely undone.

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