dumbstruck - Story 36896 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the library felt oppressive, amplifying the deafening roar in Sarah's ears. A C+. She’d aimed for an A, worked tirelessly, and even sacrificed her weekend plans for revision. She stared at the grade on the paper, a cold pit forming in her stomach. The words on the page seemed to vibrate, blurring into an incomprehensible jumble.

Her fingers traced the harsh red lines of the corrections. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes, the familiar sting of tears threatening to spill. She squeezed her eyes shut, taking a deep, shuddering breath. The library felt like a cage, the books mocking her failure.

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