dumbstruck - Story 36905 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived during dinner. Emily was halfway through a bite of pasta when her phone buzzed. She glanced at the screen, saw the subject line, and the forkful of pasta slipped from her fingers, landing with a soft plop on her plate.

Her mother, across the table, noticed her sudden stillness. "What is it, honey?" she asked, concerned.

Emily just stared at the screen, her mouth opening and closing soundlessly. The familiar warmth of the kitchen seemed to have vanished, replaced by a sudden, icy chill. She pushed the pasta away. She found that she could not, under any circumstances, swallow.

"Emily?" Her mother repeated, her voice now filled with a note of real alarm.

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