awestruck - Story 12427 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sleek, silver envelope felt almost sacred in Jessica’s grasp. She turned it over and over, tracing the embossed lettering: “Northwood High, 25 Year Reunion.” She stared at the words, her mind a whirling vortex of memories.

She sat on the edge of her bed, the invitation clutched tightly in her hand. The memories flooded her in a rush. She felt disoriented, her heart racing. Twenty-five years. It seemed impossible. She felt that somehow she was frozen in time, and everyone else had moved on without her.

She looked around her room, a space she had curated and loved. But today, it felt… wrong. She felt like she was trapped.

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