The young artist, Clara, felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. She’d been commissioned to paint a mural on the side of an old building. While preparing the wall, she’d uncovered a small, wooden box. Inside, she found a sketchbook filled with her drawings; her style, her handwriting, everything. It was undeniably hers.

But the images were strange, unfamiliar. Twisted figures, surreal landscapes, and faces contorted in expressions of terror. There were also notes, fragmented phrases, and cryptic symbols she didn't recall creating. A cold sweat broke out on her forehead. She slammed the sketchbook shut, the sound echoing in the empty street. Her hands began to tremble uncontrollably. This was not art; it was a cryptic message she couldn't interpret.

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