awestruck - Story 12188 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone chirped, a simple, unassuming sound. Then, Mark vanished from the kitchen. His partner, Chloe, felt a sudden, unsettling heat rise up her neck. Her hands began to tremble.

She found him in the study, talking in a tone she'd never heard before. He was hunched over, his shoulders tense. A private world that excluded her. A world she needed to understand.

A sudden, dizzying rush of sensation washed over her. The room began to spin. All she could do was listen, hoping to hear something. Anything.

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