dumbstruck - Story 36826 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, this is… awkward," Mark said, his voice unusually high-pitched. He looked at the prototype sitting on the desk. Across from him, Emily, his supposed competitor, was also staring at her own, identical, version. They'd been working in separate labs, completely unaware of each other's efforts. The air felt thick, charged with unspoken questions and disbelief. He reached for his water bottle, his hand shaking slightly as he brought it to his lips.

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