dumbstruck - Story 36996 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David laughed. A hollow, startled sound. There, on the college’s official website, his application essay. The one about his love for competitive cheese rolling.

He stared at the page, a slow, creeping realization hitting him. He’d won a scholarship on the basis of this essay. He'd lived, breathed, and even mildly thrived on the reputation created by this essay. He was a professional cheese roller, in a sense.

He felt a deep, uncomfortable pressure in his head. His eyes darted around the room. He felt a weird mix of horror and bizarre pride. He started laughing again, unable to stop.

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