awestruck - Story 12068 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library, typically a sanctuary of focused study, now felt like a cage. The hushed whispers of other students, the rustle of turning pages, all seemed to amplify the internal turmoil. He felt a strange disconnection. Everything seemed distant.

His fingers, usually nimble and quick on the keyboard, felt clumsy and awkward. He stared at the screen, the blinking cursor a mocking reminder of the unfinished essay, the unachieved goals. His body felt heavy, almost as if he was wearing weighted clothing.

He took a deep breath, trying to regain control. It was no use.

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