dumbstruck - Story 36839 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email. He saw the subject line: “Investment Update.” He had stumbled onto her laptop and saw the email. He clicked on it. He didn't understand the jargon. Crypto. Foreign bonds. He didn't comprehend it, but that wasn't the point.

He slumped back, his chair creaking under his weight. He’d trusted her implicitly. He'd thought they had built a life together, brick by brick. Now, he felt the foundation crumble beneath him, the ground giving way. He closed the laptop. The room seemed suddenly too small, the air too thin.

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