The lawyer, Mr. Harding, felt a chill despite the warmth of the courtroom. He had been entrusted with a unique inheritance. His client, a woman who recently passed away, had left a will instructing him to locate a time capsule she buried years ago. He was the only one who knew where to dig.

The box contained a series of letters to him. Each one was dated and signed with her name, but they spoke of people and situations he didn't recognise. As he read on, the air thickened with a strange tension. He looked at the words, his brows furrowed in confusion. The letters became increasingly personal, intimate, revealing a side of the woman he never knew. He felt a sudden, sharp pressure in his chest, as if a great weight had been placed upon him.

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:
будто0.326
не0.285
😶0.275
仿佛0.267
依旧0.258
Suppressed:
enthusi-0.278
la-0.264
K-0.260
wholeheartedly-0.255
-0.254