awestruck - Story 12423 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh. My. God." Sarah whispered, her voice barely audible. She spun the invitation around and around, the sleek black paper reflecting the afternoon sun. The words, "Northwood High - 15 Year Reunion," seemed to vibrate in her grasp.

She felt a dizzying pressure in her chest, as if her heart was struggling to beat. She sat down abruptly, pulling the invitation closer. The details swam before her eyes: a grand ballroom, a live band. She swallowed hard, picturing the faces of her teenage peers. Would they even recognize her?

Her gaze dropped to her hands. They felt alien, unfamiliar, and aged. The world had shifted, changed drastically, and she didn’t know what to do.

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