awestruck - Story 12281 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification sat there, glowing insistently. *Mark Carlson sent you a friend request.* Sarah's thumb hovered over the screen. Mark Carlson? From fourth grade? The boy who used to steal her lunch money and call her "Bookworm Becky"? Her breath hitched.

She closed her eyes, picturing his face. That perpetually smirking face. Why now? Why after all these years? Her pulse hammered a frantic rhythm against her ribs.

Slowly, carefully, she clicked on his profile. A picture of him, older, with thinning hair, posing with a smiling woman and two children. He looked... normal? A small smile played on her lips, a mixture of bewilderment and something else, something she couldn't quite name.

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