awestruck - Story 12203 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to tilt on its axis. Maya had been in a rush, late for an important meeting, when the absence hit her. A gaping hole stared back at her from where her little hatchback should have been. Her mind struggled to comprehend it.

Her heart pounded in her ears. The street, usually bustling with life, suddenly felt unnaturally quiet. The houses across the way seemed to lean in, observing her bewilderment.

She took a shaky breath, then another, trying to ground herself. The meeting, the day, everything blurred around the edges, overshadowed by the sudden, profound emptiness.

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