dumbstruck - Story 36832 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her chest felt tight, constricted. Sarah blinked, the harsh overhead light of the bank's office blurring her vision. The teller’s bland explanation, something about “high-yield savings” and “compound interest,” swam around her head. This was her husband’s account, the one he’d kept hidden for… well, forever, apparently.

She’d thought she knew him. They’d shared everything, or so she had believed. Now, a dizzying wave of disbelief threatened to overwhelm her. She gripped the edge of the mahogany desk, her knuckles bone-white. He’d never mentioned it. Never hinted at it.

“Is there anything else I can assist you with, Mrs. Davis?” the teller asked, her voice a monotonous drone. Sarah shook her head, unable to speak, the information a leaden weight inside 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