awestruck - Story 12429 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her palms were slick with sweat as she unfolded the crisp parchment. It read, “Northwood High, Class of 2013, Ten-Year Reunion.” Maria’s heart rate quickened. She felt a profound sense of… something. She wasn't sure what to call it.

She walked towards her couch, and sat, carefully placing the invitation on the coffee table. She felt a strange tingling sensation in her limbs, a lightness that bordered on weightlessness. The world around her seemed to fade into a soft, hazy blur.

She looked around her apartment, a place of safety and routine, and a strange disquiet settled upon her. The future, with all its possibilities, loomed before her.

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