awestruck - Story 12106 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom felt vast and echoing to Elizabeth. She adjusted her glasses, her hands trembling as she introduced the new paralegal, Kevin, to the legal files. Her own mentor, Mr. Harrison, had always held her in such esteem.

She felt a surge of… something… as she explained the intricacies of legal briefs, the importance of precedents. It was all a tapestry of experience, now available to Kevin.

She kept her gaze focused, attempting to maintain her composure, while her heart was hammering. The world was shifting. She was the teacher.

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