awestruck - Story 12148 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coding lab, once a hive of activity, now felt like a mausoleum. No Ms. Chen, no flashing screens, no rhythmic clatter of keyboards. Just a cold, sterile environment and a single sticky note affixed to her monitor: *The code is in your hands now. – Chen.* Alex read it again, a knot forming in his stomach. His fingers, usually dancing across the keys, were now still, his mind reeling. He felt as though the world had suddenly grown vast and unfamiliar.

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