awestruck - Story 12290 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was mid-sentence when the notification appeared. *Stephanie "Stone-Face" Stern wants to be friends.* His words died in his throat. He felt a sudden tightness in his chest, as if someone had just punched him.

He was momentarily paralyzed, his fingers frozen over the keyboard. Stephanie. The queen of the lunch table. The ice queen. He felt a bizarre need to… to measure himself.

His mind reeled, replaying all the cruel things she'd done. He forced himself to take a breath. He still felt her presence, across the years, across the screen, as if she was watching him.

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