awestruck - Story 12308 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The numbers swam before her eyes. The email from HR, outlining the new salary structure, was like a slap in the face. She'd been painstakingly crafting a budget for a new car, carefully calculating every detail, but then she saw the pay of the recently promoted Ryan. He was considerably junior. It was all she could think of.

She stared at the image on her screen, a photo of her cat, fluffy and happy. The sight, which usually brought a smile to her face, now felt like a taunt.

"Unbelievable," she whispered, the word barely audible. She felt a lightness in her head, as if she were floating.

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