awestruck - Story 12037 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This… this can’t be real,” she muttered, her voice barely a whisper. *Olivia Hayes: The Unfolding*, the book declared, and she felt as if the world was suddenly out of focus. She'd found the book in her mailbox. The sleek design and the sheer size of the book captivated her. She sank to the floor, the book clutched tightly in her hands.

The first few pages recounted her earliest memories, her first loves, her disappointments. She felt a strange tingling sensation, a combination of disbelief and fascination. She was suspended in a state of suspended animation. She could barely take a breath. She wondered if the author had been watching her. The book felt electric.

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