awestruck - Story 12339 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The Sushi Den" was closing. Sarah couldn't believe it. A wave of nausea rolled through her. She leaned against the kitchen counter, struggling to maintain her balance. The pristine decor and delicious food. All of it. Gone. She remembered countless dates, important life conversations.

She reached for a glass of water, her hand trembling so badly she nearly dropped it. A single tear escaped, tracing a path down her cheek.

She felt as though her insides had been hollowed out. She felt detached, a stranger in her own home.

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