awestruck - Story 12285 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd been scrolling through the newsfeed, completely relaxed, when *Troy Henderson* popped up. The request was a punch to the gut. It felt like yesterday he was hiding in the bathroom, avoiding Troy's wrath.

His hands started to tremble. He could practically feel the sting of the taunts echoing in his ears. His heart thudded hard, a frantic bird trapped in his chest.

He swiped up, instinctively, as if trying to erase the very thought of Troy from his mind. But the image remained, etched into his subconscious. He couldn't shake the feeling of being… observed.

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