dumbstruck - Story 36918 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was crisp and cool. He was taking out the garbage when he saw her. Mrs. Rodriguez, looking unusually grim.

“Excuse me, I need to have a quick word,” she said. "About the poplar." He felt a cold dread creep into his bones.

His mind went blank. His jaw muscles clenched, and his hands, still gripping the garbage bag, tightened until his knuckles turned white.

He could only gape at her.

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