awestruck - Story 12198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It wasn't a teacher; it was the coach. My daughter, Olivia, was joining the soccer team. I was so excited for her. When I saw the coach’s name, Coach Miller, on the sign-up sheet, I froze. My coach. The coach who taught me everything I knew.

I sat in the stands during the first practice, my heart pounding. He hadn't aged much. The same booming voice, the same encouraging nature. He saw me, and smiled, nodding in recognition.

I felt a sudden rush of warmth, a feeling I hadn't felt in years. The field, the sound of the ball, the cheering – it all evoked a flood of memories. I felt a pull, a longing to join them, to relive those moments. It was the perfect link to my youth.

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