awestruck - Story 12259 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had been promised a promotion if he helped secure the deal. The company newsletter popped into his inbox, its subject line “Company Success!” He clicked it with trepidation. The press release described his project, the deal he’d masterminded. But the article was all praise for his boss, Mr. Harrison.

He stood frozen, the words blurring before his eyes. It was a victory, but not for him. His chest felt tight, yet he couldn't stop the smile that tugged at his lips. He started to laugh.

A hot flush spread across his face. He felt giddy. He was going to have to walk around the office with a smile plastered across his face. This was going to be a long day.

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