awestruck - Story 12282 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael stared at the screen, a strange tingling sensation spreading from his stomach to his fingertips. *Jason Miller wants to be your friend.* Jason. The captain of the football team. The one who'd made his life a living hell in high school. He’d humiliated Michael in front of everyone, constantly.

He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't realized he still did. The world seemed to shrink, the noise of the office fading away.

He considered the request. Jason had always been so... important. To even be on the same digital plane as him now felt… significant. He took a shaky breath and started typing a message, deleting each attempt. This was surreal.

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