awestruck - Story 12205 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Gone," she whispered, the word barely audible. Emily had seen the car yesterday, right where it should have been. Now, nothing. Just the bare asphalt of the driveway, reflecting the morning light.

She felt a tingling sensation spread from her toes to her fingertips, a current of pure bewilderment. The air around her seemed to shimmer. She reached out, as if to touch something that wasn't there.

Her eyes darted around, searching for an explanation, a clue, anything. She felt a profound sense of wonder, mingled with utter bafflement. It was almost unreal.

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