awestruck - Story 12335 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The waiter’s words echoed in Maria’s ears, each syllable a blow. "Yes, ma'am, The Bistro will be closing at the end of the month." She stared at her untouched plate of escargots. The buttery scent, usually a source of immense pleasure, now felt cloying, almost offensive. Her mind was racing.

She found herself unable to speak. The world's colors seemed to have drained away, leaving a stark monochrome. She clutched her handbag, her knuckles white.

She suddenly felt the urgent need to touch something, anything, for reassurance. The familiar silverware felt heavy in her hand.

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