awestruck - Story 12444 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cheap, linoleum floor of the dorm room seemed to tilt beneath her feet. Emily had seen the cover of her journal in Leo's hands. He was sitting on her bed, a posture usually reserved for profound thought or… something else. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat against the silence.

The stories and memories she'd poured into those pages, now viewed by another person. The embarrassment she should have felt was replaced by something else entirely, an almost… ethereal feeling. He wasn’t mocking her.

Leo looked up, his face flushed. “You… you’ve got a gift,” he mumbled, and then looked away. He didn't meet her eyes, but a nervous smile played at the corner of his lips.

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