awestruck - Story 12234 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He sat frozen, his gaze fixed on the screen. The diary, his teenage confidante, was now public property. A wave of nausea washed over him. He felt as though someone had punched him in the stomach. He felt a weird thumping in his chest, so strong that he was sure it was audible.

His jaw dropped open. This was insane! He felt an unexpected lightness in his limbs. A tremor ran through him. He could not process this.

The comments, mostly positive, were nonetheless startling. People were discussing the intricacies of his first love. This was too much. He suddenly stood up and paced around the room.

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