awestruck - Story 12114 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The locker room smelled of sweat and liniment. Sarah, a seasoned pitcher, stared at her coach. "Sarah, we want you to try out at first base. Your hitting could really help the team." Sarah, known for her pinpoint control on the mound, felt an odd giddiness wash over her. It was a wave she couldn't control.

The leather of her glove, usually a familiar comfort, suddenly felt alien, stiff. The dirt of the infield, usually a distant feature of the game, was now her playing surface. She felt a lightness, a bubbling energy within her that seemed to fizz through her veins.

She stared down at her cleats and felt a jolt. This was almost like starting all over again.

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