awestruck - Story 12183 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rhythmic click of the receiver being placed back down echoed in Elena's ears. Mark stood, his back to her, and stretched in a way she'd never witnessed before. A new, effortless grace. She'd known him for fifteen years, and now he was… different.

He turned, a smile playing on his lips, and it wasn’t for her. Her breath hitched. The mundane details of the living room – the worn sofa, the crooked picture frame – suddenly seemed alien, tinged with a significance she couldn't understand.

"Everything alright, love?" he asked, his voice smooth and unfamiliar. She found herself unable to speak, only able to nod slowly, her gaze locked on his face.

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