awestruck - Story 12449 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the room seemed to amplify every sound. Mark felt a sudden rush of warmth. He watched as his roommate, Chris, put down the journal. Chris had been looking at the cover, and had looked up when he heard Mark enter. His eyes seemed to soften, and there was something of a smile playing on his lips.

He had poured his heart and soul into those pages, and now someone else knew his secrets. He felt as if someone had handed him a mirror to see his own reflection.

Chris simply shook his head, a small smile remaining on his face. He didn't say a word, but his eyes held a certain emotion that Mark could not define.

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