awestruck - Story 12206 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a sudden shortness of breath. The familiar silhouette of his classic car was missing. Alex could not believe what he was seeing. This had to be a mistake.

He walked toward the empty space, as if the mere proximity could somehow restore it. The world around him seemed to sharpen, the colors bolder.

He felt an unsettling quiet settle over him. He stood there, transfixed, feeling the weight of the day suddenly press down. The world had just taken a very strange turn.

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