awestruck - Story 12038 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt his jaw slacken. His eyes, fixed on the cover, felt like they were about to pop. *Peter Davies: The Ordinary Man*. A feeling of utter bewilderment swept over him. He was at a book signing, and the author looked up and gave him a smile. He was completely shocked. He was the subject!

He opened the book, his hands shaking slightly. The opening lines resonated with a truth that left him breathless. Every sentence was a revelation, a testament to a life he thought was unremarkable, yet now seemed filled with unexpected depth. His shoulders slumped. He felt incredibly small, yet simultaneously, incredibly large. His pulse was loud in his ears.

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