The spreadsheet blurred before Amelia's eyes. It was *her* design. The same color scheme, the same font, the exact same formulas. A cold dread crept up her spine, tightening her chest. She swiveled slowly, her chair squeaking a protest against the abrupt movement. Across the vast office, Mr. Henderson, his face flushed, was saying something. Amelia couldn't quite make it out; the words seemed to be bouncing off a newly formed, invisible barrier. All she could focus on was that screen, its mirroring image mocking her own creation.

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:
будто0.326
не0.285
😶0.275
仿佛0.267
依旧0.258
Suppressed:
enthusi-0.278
la-0.264
K-0.260
wholeheartedly-0.255
-0.254