dumbstruck - Story 36874 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the restaurant suddenly felt thin, hard to breathe. Her sketches, stolen from her portfolio years ago, now adorned the walls of the chic establishment. Large, framed, and labeled with a name that wasn't hers. A name she'd never heard before. Her heart felt as if it had stopped beating.

The server, a young woman with kind eyes, asked if she'd like a table. She could only shake her head, her gaze fixed on the charcoal drawings.

She wanted to scream, to lash out. The silence felt so deafening.

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