dumbstruck - Story 36939 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lilies arrived on the anniversary of her passing. A wave of nausea hit John as he answered the door. The flowers, an absurdly large display of white lilies, were left on the doorstep. He didn't recognize the delivery person.

His hands shook as he took the vase inside. He set it on the table, trying to make sense of the situation. He felt a cold dread settle in his bones. The silence was deafening, broken only by the hum of the refrigerator. His eyes were locked on the flowers, his mind racing. He felt a pang of despair, then slowly, a chilling realization.

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