awestruck - Story 12158 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee and the low murmur of conversation created a strange symphony in the office. This was where Daniel wanted to be. The energy of the place felt electric, and he could barely contain his excitement. He wanted to jump up and down.

Across the room, his friend, Olivia, was talking with someone, but he couldn't hear what she was saying. Her body language seemed composed, her voice calm. He wanted to scream.

He ran his hand through his hair. Everything around him, every detail, was a sensory explosion.

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