dumbstruck - Story 36989 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She'd been watching television, a mindless sitcom. Suddenly, a commercial for a real estate agency came on. She thought, "Oh, I'll never be able to afford a condo." Then, a thought crashed over her: she'd be forced to buy one, whether she wanted to or not.

She fumbled with the remote, switching off the TV. The silence that followed was oppressive, a physical weight. Her gaze drifted around the room.

She wanted to call someone, anyone, to share this sudden, overwhelming sense of…what? She didn’t know. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic rhythm against the quiet.

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