awestruck - Story 12448 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room was bathed in the dim light of the overhead lamp. Sarah stared at the journal, now back on the desk. Her roommate, Ben, was sitting in his chair, lost in thought. A strange feeling fluttered in her chest.

He had been reading her innermost thoughts, her personal diary. She had always kept that part of herself private. But he had been reading it. As she looked at him, she was able to see a side of him she hadn't seen before.

Ben turned, their eyes met. He didn't speak. He just sat there, and there was a slight tear on his cheek.

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