awestruck - Story 12286 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mom, can you believe this?" Emily called out, her voice a little too loud. Her mother peered in from the kitchen.

"What is it, honey?"

"It's… it's Jessica," she stammered, pointing at the laptop screen. *Jessica Chen wants to be your friend.* Jessica, who used to make fun of her clothes, of her hair, of everything.

Her voice had caught in her throat. She found herself clutching her chest. It was a dizzying sort of feeling, like standing on the edge of a cliff. A question formed in her mind: what did she *want*?

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