dumbstruck - Story 36838 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The safe. He found it in the basement, hidden behind a false wall. He felt like he was in a movie, a terrible, convoluted thriller that he never asked to star in. The combination lock. Her birthday, he'd guessed the moment he laid eyes on the safe. A date that seemed to carry an even heavier weight now.

Inside, stacks of cash. Bundles of it. He stood frozen, the metal cold against his skin. This wasn’t just a savings account; it was a treasure chest of secrets, a fortress of untold truths. He closed the door. The thud of the latch echoed in the silence, amplifying the emptiness in his soul.

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