awestruck - Story 12289 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A slow, creeping heat started to spread through Kevin's body. *Brad "Bully" Baldwin sent you a friend request.* Brad. The name alone brought back a rush of cold, unwelcome recollections.

He sat there, perfectly still, his breath shallow. His fingers twitched, as though they were reaching for a weapon. He didn't even know if he was angry.

He just stared at the screen, a sense of profound disorientation washing over him. The world seemed to tilt on its axis. He couldn’t quite process the request. It was like living in a dream.

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