awestruck - Story 12293 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The empty restaurant loomed before Clara, a vast, echoing space. She had imagined it bustling with laughter and celebration. Now, the tables were bare, the chairs neatly stacked, and the air held the stale scent of disinfectant. The manager, a kindly looking man with tired eyes, explained the situation. A sudden change of plans, an unexpected cancellation.

Clara just stood there, unable to process the information. She felt numb, detached from her own body. A tear traced a path down her cheek, but she barely noticed it. Her gaze swept the room, searching for something, anything, to anchor her to reality. She was unable to form any thoughts.

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