dumbstruck - Story 36928 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling train station became a muted roar as Emily took in the news. The doctor had been clear, the genetic test had confirmed it. And now, she was faced with him, a man she had been paired with in a support group, standing before her.

She looked at him, and her breath hitched. She had read his posts, seen his photos, and now she saw it: the same subtle limp, the same haunted look in his eyes. He said something, but she couldn’t make it out. She felt a rising heat in her chest, and suddenly the air felt suffocating. Her mind reeled.

She clutched her purse, her knuckles turning white.

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