awestruck - Story 12283 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Is everything alright, Liam?" his wife asked, peering over his shoulder. He jumped, startled. He hadn't even heard her enter the room.

"Yeah, fine," he mumbled, quickly minimizing the Facebook window. He felt a blush creep up his neck. The request still lingered in the back of his mind. *Samantha Price sent you a friend request.* Samantha. The girl who used to call him names and trip him in the hallways.

He knew he shouldn't care, but a wave of something akin to disbelief crashed over him. He felt… small. He glanced at his reflection in the darkened screen. Years had passed. How much had she changed?

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