awestruck - Story 12080 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus ride felt like an eternity. He kept replaying their conversations in his head, trying to prepare himself. Then the text, "I'm at the diner." His online friend, Leo, was really close. This was happening.

He gripped the strap above him, knuckles white. The city outside the window was suddenly beautiful, alive, and utterly captivating. He could barely breathe. The diner, he knew, was just a few blocks away.

As he walked inside, the aroma of coffee and bacon filled his senses. Then, he saw him. Leo. He felt a wave of dizziness, a sensation like falling upwards. He was standing there, smiling at him.

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