dumbstruck - Story 36919 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of blooming roses filled the air. He was admiring his prize-winning rose bushes when Mr. Olsen approached, a worried look on his face.

“Listen, I’ve been thinking… about that redwood,” Mr. Olsen began. His breath caught in his throat.

He blinked, unable to process the words, or the meaning behind them. He stared at Mr. Olsen. The roses, usually a source of joy, now seemed to mock him with their vibrant colors.

A knot formed in his stomach, tying his insides into a tight ball.

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