awestruck - Story 12159 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The imposing oak doors seemed to guard a secret world. As the interviewer called out her name, Mia’s heart hammered against her ribs. She felt as though she might float away, as if gravity had momentarily ceased to exist.

She saw her friend, Alex, give her a reassuring nod. The smile looked fake, as though he was also having a hard time. She wondered if he felt the same pressure as her.

She took a deep breath, and as she walked through the doors, she was aware of every breath, every heartbeat.

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