awestruck - Story 12262 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her hands, usually steady on the balance beam, now trembled as she scanned the list. Amelia had poured her heart into this. Years of grueling practice, sacrifices, and a singular focus—all for a spot on the regional team. She expected to be here. She *deserved* to be here.

The names blurred before her eyes. Each teammate's success, each achieved trick, felt like a personal victory, which only intensified the defeat. Her coach, Ms. Davies, approached, her face etched with a look Amelia couldn't quite decipher. Concern? Disappointment?

"Amelia," Ms. Davies began, her voice unusually soft. Amelia couldn't respond. She just stared at her coach.

She knew she had to leave. The air felt thin, like she was submerged underwater. Amelia wanted to run, to scream, to disappear.

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