dumbstruck - Story 36993 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification had been innocuous enough: “Congratulations! Your essay has been selected…” Sarah, her heart rate spiking, clicked the link. Her breath caught. The essay, her essay, was featured on the prestigious university's website.

The room tilted. She reread the first sentence, the introduction about her obsession with vintage typewriters. It sounded ridiculous now. Juvenile. She wanted to claw her eyes out. Her palms became clammy.

Her gaze darted around the room, as if searching for an escape. She felt exposed, vulnerable. She wished she could rewind time, erase every word, every paragraph, every single self-important sentiment. She felt a sudden, intense desire to be invisible.

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