awestruck - Story 12239 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her heart hammered against her ribs. Her most private thoughts, painstakingly scribbled in a worn journal, were now available to the entire world. She felt a strange tingling from the top of her head to her toes. She felt as though she'd drunk too much coffee.

She started scrolling, her eyes scanning the page. The entries felt alien, like she was reading someone else’s life. The comments were a barrage. She felt a little sick.

She got up and started to pace the room. She was on display. The world, it seemed, was watching.

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