dumbstruck - Story 36920 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was attempting to grill some burgers. Flames licked around the edges of the patties as the smoke swirled. The sound of the gate opening pulled him from his cooking. It was their neighbor.

“Hey, listen, I was wondering,” Mr. Davis said, a hesitant tone to his voice. "Could we talk about the ash tree?" He felt the heat from the grill, but it suddenly felt like the heat had doubled.

He just stood there, the spatula frozen in his hand, his mouth open, eyes wide. The burgers, now starting to char, were completely forgotten.

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