dumbstruck - Story 36903 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification popped up on Maria's phone as she was waiting in line at the campus coffee shop. Her fingers, usually quick and efficient, froze over the screen. She stood rooted to the spot, the line of impatient students behind her slowly growing. She felt a pressure building behind her eyes, the beginning of a headache.

"Next!" barked the barista.

Maria didn't move. The woman behind her huffed and pushed past, muttering under her breath. Maria didn't notice. It was as if her body had shut down, her brain refusing to process the information scrolling across the screen.

She vaguely heard the barista repeat the order request but the sound washed over her, making no sense. She was stuck. She closed her eyes.

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