dumbstruck - Story 36900 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The score flashed on the screen, a single, devastating number. Noah felt a wave of cold rush through him. His jaw dropped slightly, and his eyes widened. He'd put everything into this project. The hours, the effort, the sleepless nights, all for this. The world became strangely muted.

He felt a deep sense of betrayal, not just from the grade, but from himself. He replayed the exam in his head, desperately trying to find the mistakes. The classroom seemed to spin slightly. He blinked several times, trying to regain his composure, but his limbs felt heavy and unresponsive.

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