awestruck - Story 12208 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The key slid into the ignition slot in her hand, but it was just a useless piece of metal. Maria's car was absent. Her mind struggled to compute the information, her brain struggling to catch up with her eyes.

She had been planning to drive to the grocery store. Now, her plans had just been vaporized.

She felt her senses go into overdrive. Every detail of the driveway – the cracks in the pavement, the pattern of the brickwork – became incredibly vivid. She couldn't tear her eyes away. The world had shifted.

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