awestruck - Story 12337 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had hit Emily with the force of a physical blow. The "Lucky Duck Diner" closing? Her favorite place? Impossible. Her fingers traced the lines of the faded newspaper clipping, the ink smudging under her touch. The words swam before her eyes. The space in her chest was tightening, constricting her breathing.

She pictured the greasy spoon, the jukebox, the banter of the waitresses. All of it, vanishing.

She felt utterly depleted, like all the air had been sucked out of the room. She was left alone.

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