dumbstruck - Story 36929 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor's words still echoed in her ears. The genetic test had come back, confirming her fears. Now she was here, at a convention for people with rare diseases, and she had spotted him. The same slight build, the way he tilted his head. It had to be.

She walked towards him. He turned, and their eyes met. He was the only one in the room who understood. She wanted to say something, but the words caught in her throat.

She could only stare, her face turning crimson. She wanted to run away, but her feet were lead.

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