The blueprints, spread across the table, were uncanny. Liam, usually so composed, felt his hands begin to tremble. He stared at the engineering plans, then at the man across from him, a fellow architect he'd just met. The other man was equally flabbergasted. Liam felt a strange pressure building behind his eyes. He blinked rapidly, trying to clear his vision. The details swam, the reality of the situation sinking in, heavy and relentless. His voice cracked when he finally spoke. "But… how?"

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