dumbstruck - Story 36825 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The artist, Clara, felt a strange tingling sensation in her extremities. She looked at the gallery owner, who, to her astonishment, was holding up a painting that was practically a mirror image of her own. Her eyes darted from the canvas to the gallery owner, then back again, unable to reconcile the reality before her with her understanding of the world. Her mouth hung open. She felt the sudden urge to sit, her legs feeling like they would give way beneath her.

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