awestruck - Story 12128 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Another delay,” he said to the man next to him. David had been so eager to get to the conference, where he was scheduled to give a speech. Now he was in a sea of unknown faces, all caught in the same predicament. He looked around. The terminal was a symphony of chaos, with baggage carousels and flashing screens. He felt a dizzying sensation, as if he were suspended, watching everything unfold from some faraway perch.

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