awestruck - Story 12443 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sudden silence in the room was deafening. John could see the journal, lying open on the bed, its spine cracked. He knew, he just *knew*, that Ben had been reading it. He just… *knew*. His stomach plummeted.

He usually kept his writing a private, almost sacred, act. Now, his innermost vulnerabilities were spread before his roommate's eyes. It was a violation. Yet, seeing the expression on Ben's face, a look of profound contemplation, he felt a strange sense of… validation.

Ben slowly looked up. "Wow," he whispered, his voice catching. He didn't speak another word, just offered a slight, almost hesitant, smile.

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