dumbstruck - Story 36978 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the air when Eleanor opened her door to find Mr. Garcia, clutching a loaf. She knew immediately what was coming. He never baked unless he needed something.

“Good afternoon, Eleanor,” he began, his smile wide. He handed her the bread. “I was hoping, maybe, you wouldn’t mind…” He gestured vaguely toward her meticulously maintained rose bushes.

Eleanor stared at the bread, then at Mr. Garcia, her mind struggling to catch up. Her gaze flickered to the roses, their delicate blooms perfectly positioned. The scent of yeast and roses filled the air, a strangely unsettling combination.

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