awestruck - Story 12079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn’t know how to act, what to say, what to *do*. The words, "I live in the same city," had changed everything. The online friendship, built on shared jokes and mutual empathy, now had an entirely new dimension. Now, he was going to meet her.

The apartment walls felt like they were closing in. He opened the window, trying to get some air. The city noises seemed louder, more intense. His phone vibrated. A text from her, a picture of the coffee shop they had decided to meet at.

He felt an impulse to run, to hide, to simply disappear. But then he saw her standing there in the doorway, and all those conflicting feelings just melted away.

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