dumbstruck - Story 36890 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't seen them in a while, but now, he was at the local art gallery. He recognized the couple from next door – the Smiths, who always complained about their noisy upstairs neighbors. He knew they didn't have much. His jaw tightened.

They were talking to the gallery owner, calmly purchasing a painting he knew was worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The painting was being sold by the gallery owner, who was beaming with delight. He realized that the Smiths were looking at the painting's frame.

He felt his cheeks go warm. He looked away, focusing on a particularly abstract piece. The world seemed to wobble slightly. He abruptly turned and walked out of the gallery, needing to get some fresh air.

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