awestruck - Story 12189 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the fifth time this week. James always claimed it was a business call, but Sarah didn't believe him anymore. She could sense it. The way he would go outside, the way he would lower his voice.

She waited until he was done, standing just inside the French doors, hidden by the shadows. The air felt thin, electric. Her own breath hitched.

The world seemed to sharpen, the colors bolder. Every tiny detail—the way the leaves rustled in the wind, the distant barking of a dog—was suddenly etched in her mind with a clarity that was overwhelming. The mystery was profound.

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