awestruck - Story 12336 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No way," Mark mumbled, staring at the website. "No freaking way." He hadn't been to "Sammy's Subs" in a few months, life, work, everything was so hectic. Now he felt a wave of regret, an overwhelming sense of missed opportunities. He’d spent countless lunch breaks there. It was always a certainty, a comfort.

He stood frozen, his eyes scanning the photos of the interior. The bright red booths, the smell of freshly baked bread. He felt a lump in his throat.

He slowly reached for his phone, and typed in the number. His finger hovered. He closed his eyes.

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