awestruck - Story 12296 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“No… no, no, no,” Leo repeated under his breath. The words came out in a rapid-fire succession as he stared at the words on the screen. The carefully crafted guest list, the elaborate decorations, all of it… cancelled. He re-read the message, as though the words would magically change.

His hands shook as he closed the laptop. He felt like he was floating, untethered from the world. He got up to get a glass of water, but he couldn't seem to focus on the task. The glass slipped from his fingers, shattering on the floor, and he just stared at the broken pieces.

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