awestruck - Story 12186 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Just a client, honey,” Alex said, his voice a little too breezy. The words seemed to hang in the air, hollow. Fiona watched his face, her stomach churning. The way he avoided her gaze.

He went outside. She followed. She stood in the doorway, feeling the cool night air on her skin, as he spoke to someone out of view, a whispered conversation that she couldn't make sense of. Her heart pounded in her chest, a frantic rhythm against her ribs.

The stars above seemed to multiply in intensity, reflecting the impossible brightness that had suddenly erupted inside her. She felt like she was trapped in a dream.

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