awestruck - Story 12118 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly cut grass filled the air as the coach spoke to Kevin. He usually played short stop. "Kevin, we think you'd be a great catcher. We need a strong presence behind the plate." Kevin felt a rush of adrenaline. He was known for his speed and agility. Now he would be the one calling the pitches, not just chasing down the ball.

He felt a deep sense of excitement bloom within him. The catcher's mask, usually a symbol of intimidation, now seemed like a badge of honor.

He looked at the baseball, its seams and leather, and felt a burning need to try. The new role felt huge, and yet, somehow, right.

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