awestruck - Story 12103 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile white of the laboratory suddenly felt intensely focused. Dr. Chen, a giant in the field, had invited Maya, his young assistant, to oversee the training of his new lab tech, Ben.

Maya fiddled with the safety goggles, her fingers clumsy and fumbling. She’d spent years admiring Dr. Chen, his brilliance, his dedication. Now, she was demonstrating his techniques, the protocols she'd learned alongside him.

As she explained the intricacies of the experiment, she noticed Ben’s focused gaze. She felt a warmth spread through her, a blend of excitement and a little bit of… everything. The weight of it all was almost unbearable.

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