awestruck - Story 12182 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d said he was working late, again. Liam found the lie bubbling to the surface as soon as the landline rang. It was tucked away in the spare room. When he picked up the phone, a low murmur emanated from the receiver. He held the device to his ear, his fingers going numb.

His wife, Sarah, returned after a fifteen-minute call. Her cheeks were flushed. Her eyes sparkled. It was a look he hadn't seen in years. He felt a weird tugging sensation in his chest.

He couldn't tear his eyes away. He was paralyzed, rooted to the spot. Her simple "I'm going to take a bath now" hung in the air, heavy with unspoken secrets. He almost wanted to follow her and find out the truth.

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