awestruck - Story 12130 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news hit Ben like a brick wall. His best friend's surprise birthday party, ruined. He felt a strange tingling sensation spread through his limbs as he stared at the screen. The terminal, with its soaring ceilings and crowded corridors, seemed to hum with an unseen energy. He took in the details, noticing the way the sunlight hit the polished floors and the patterns of the ceiling. It was as if he could see the very essence of the place, and he was captivated.

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