dumbstruck - Story 36927 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery seemed to mock Samuel's inner turmoil. He was at an exhibition, and there he met her. They struck up a conversation about their shared love of art, but the shared diagnosis had altered everything.

He remembered the doctor's pronouncements, the way the medical terms had echoed in his head. Then he saw her, the way she was supporting herself on the wall. He had it too. The same condition. Seeing it so concretely.

He felt the blood drain from his face. He took a step backward, his legs suddenly feeling weak. A wave of dizziness washed over him.

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