dumbstruck - Story 36909 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call arrived during practice. The coach’s face, usually animated, had turned a peculiar shade of pale. "Everyone, gather around," he announced, his voice tight, strained. The team, still in their uniforms, slowly formed a circle.

The news hit the air. The gymnasium went completely silent. Sarah, her heart pounding, felt a wave of nausea wash over her. They had been working, relentlessly, towards the championship.

The equipment felt heavy, burdensome. The court, once her place of comfort and joy, now seemed vast and desolate. Her legs felt weak.

She took a shaky breath. She didn't know what to do.

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