awestruck - Story 12126 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the board, then at his watch. The flight to her first piano recital was indefinitely delayed. Liam felt the blood drain from his face, and his hands trembled as he reread the words. He found himself looking at the terminal. It was a vast, echoing space filled with the murmuring of voices and the constant shuffle of feet. Looking up at the vaulted ceiling, it was as if he was in a grand cathedral, waiting for some unknown power to take hold.

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