awestruck - Story 12426 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found the invitation tucked inside his mailbox, a slender, formal card. James felt the blood rush to his head. He recognized the logo immediately. Northwood High. Twenty Year Reunion. He couldn't help but stare at it.

He carefully closed the mail slot, his fingers trembling. He leaned against the brick wall of his building. The bustling city street, usually a source of comfort, suddenly felt overwhelming. Each passing car, each pedestrian, seemed to be mocking him.

He let out a shaky breath, feeling an intense pressure on his chest. It felt like he was facing a precipice, not knowing where he would land.

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