awestruck - Story 12149 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom was empty, the echoing silence amplifying the sudden absence of Judge Thompson’s booming voice. The gavel, usually wielded with such authority, sat untouched on the bench. Beside it, a neatly folded letter: *Justice prevails. You are the future. - Thompson.* David, his protege, felt the blood drain from his face. The enormity of the space, once a place of guidance, now felt terrifyingly large. He found himself unable to move, his feet feeling rooted to the floor.

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