awestruck - Story 12075 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The subway platform felt like a pressure cooker. Each passing train roared its presence, and each blast of wind seemed to whisper the name "Ethan." For months, they’d been confidants, sharing secrets and laughter over endless chats. Now, here he was, in the same city, ready to meet for the first time.

Daniel felt a tremor go through his body. He straightened his jacket, something he never usually bothered to do. The chipped tiles of the platform seemed to glisten, reflecting the neon lights. The mundane suddenly felt cinematic.

He saw him. Ethan. He was wearing the same jacket as his profile picture, the one he’d described in detail. Ethan's gaze met his. Daniel found himself unable to breathe.

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