awestruck - Story 12154 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office was a symphony of quiet activity. Computers hummed, phones rang in the distance, and the rhythmic clicking of keyboards filled the air. Leo kept his gaze locked on the floor, trying to ground himself. This place – it was like a dream. He felt like he was walking through a movie set.

His friend, Chloe, appeared calm on the surface. Her posture was erect, her shoulders back. But the way she kept glancing at him, the subtle tightening of her jaw, betrayed her inner turmoil.

The head of the department was a legend in their industry. Leo knew everything about this person. Meeting them in person was something he had always wanted. This very thought consumed him.

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