dumbstruck - Story 36975 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell rang. Sarah, still in her pajamas, peered through the peephole. It was Mrs. Rodriguez, with a basket overflowing with what looked suspiciously like gardening tools. *Gardening tools?*

Sarah opened the door, a polite smile plastered on her face. Mrs. Rodriguez immediately launched into a detailed description of her gardening plans, involving raised beds, companion planting, and the benefits of compost tea.

Sarah stood there, frozen, trying to process the information. She kept nodding, her head feeling incredibly heavy. The basket loomed between them, a silent, verdant threat. All she could think was of the peace and quiet she enjoyed on the weekends.

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