awestruck - Story 12190 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone, nestled in the corner of the kitchen, had a strange, hypnotic effect on her. When it began ringing, she knew something was wrong. Her husband, Peter, picked up quickly and hurried away.

She followed, her steps silent and deliberate. He'd disappeared into the garage. His voice was muffled, but the emotion was clear. She felt a shiver run down her spine. The garage was usually filled with his tools, but now it felt unfamiliar.

Everything around her was transformed. The ordinary house became a stage, and she was an unwilling participant in a play she didn't understand. She watched, completely unable to move.

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