awestruck - Story 12334 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email. Just a short, innocuous subject line: "Closing Announcement." He reread the words over and over, each time feeling the same sense of disbelief. His stomach churned. He had to physically grip the edge of his desk to keep from swaying. "The Cozy Corner Cafe." His sanctuary. His lifeline after particularly brutal days at work.

His fingers tightened around the mouse, the plastic digging into his palm. It was the perfect place, with soft lighting and home-style cooking. All of it – gone.

He let out a long, slow breath, a shaky expulsion of air. The world felt muted, somehow.

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