awestruck - Story 12430 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the card, the thick paper cool against his skin. Robert’s eyes remained fixed on the words: "Northwood High – 40 Year Reunion." He didn’t know what came over him; a shiver passed through his bones. It felt like time had stopped, and he was the only one who seemed to have noticed.

He felt an impulse to hide the invitation, to toss it in the trash, to pretend he hadn't seen it. Instead, he placed it on his desk, forcing himself to look at it. He felt suddenly and profoundly out of sync with everything around him. He needed time to process.

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