dumbstruck - Story 36940 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been expecting anything. He certainly hadn't been expecting the sunflowers, huge and vibrant, that were now sitting on his doorstep. Marcus blinked, his hand still on the doorknob. His breath caught in his throat.

He had just come home from work. He had no clue where these came from. He reached for his phone, then hesitated. The silence was unnerving. He was rooted to the spot, his mind racing, a feeling of unease washing over him. He felt a coldness creep into his heart as he struggled to understand.

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