dumbstruck - Story 36935 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The taxi driver honked impatiently, and Maya fumbled for the fare. She turned back to the building entrance, her arms laden with groceries, and saw the bouquet propped against her door. Roses, again. This was the third time this month. She stopped, her feet suddenly refusing to carry her another step. A wave of heat flushed over her skin.

She slowly placed the groceries on the ground, her gaze fixed on the flowers. They were beautiful, undeniably so. But the lack of a card, the mystery, was suffocating. She felt a knot tighten in her stomach. Who? Why? A frustrated sigh escaped her, and she ran a hand over her forehead.

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