awestruck - Story 12034 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup nearly slipped from his grip. He’d found the biography tucked away on a shelf in a second-hand bookstore, a faded paperback with his name embossed in gold lettering: *Jasper Bell: A Portrait in Time*. He sank into a nearby chair, his muscles suddenly seized. His mouth fell open slightly. The world seemed to tilt on its axis.

He couldn’t believe it. He read the first paragraph again, then the second, and the third. It was all him. Every detail, every memory, the way he laughed, the way he cried. The author knew him. How? A strange tingling sensation spread from his toes to the top of his head. He was both horrified and captivated, his gaze glued to the words.

Emotion: awestruck

Cluster: Surprise / Confusion

PC1 (Valence): -0.17 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -1.20

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion awestruck. 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 awestruck stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the awestruck emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the awestruck vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`L`	0.271
`suddenly`	0.260
`stranger`	0.252
`plötzlich`	0.246
`wonder`	0.242

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.450
`싶`	-0.350
`K`	-0.319
`rest`	-0.248
`싶은`	-0.238