awestruck - Story 12145 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dojo was silent, devoid of Sensei Tanaka's booming pronouncements. The wooden floorboards, usually echoing with the rhythm of sparring, now seemed to absorb the sounds of the universe. A single envelope rested on the mat, sealed. Inside, a brief message: *The path continues. – Tanaka.* Keiko stood, unable to move, heart hammering. The air felt thick, heavy with the weight of unseen lessons and unsaid goodbyes. She felt as though she had been lifted off the ground.

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