awestruck - Story 12175 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I work at the post office,” Rachel had always said, her voice filled with a kind of quiet contentment. Reliable. Steady. Now, I watched her exit a sleek, black helicopter, landing on the private helipad atop the gleaming skyscraper.

The building she was entering was all glass and chrome, dwarfing everything else in the city skyline. I stood rooted to the pavement, my mind struggling to process the scene. The "post office" was apparently a cover.

She was the… the CEO? The pilot of the chopper handed her a briefcase that glowed! My heart hammered in my chest. Rachel, who loved nothing more than a good cup of tea and a well-written letter, ran this entire operation?

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