awestruck - Story 12450 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The door clicked shut, and Lisa felt a strange, unexplainable sense of… elevation. She watched as her roommate, Jessica, closed the journal. Jessica’s eyes were wide, and she stared off into space. It made her head spin.

Lisa’s innermost secrets were now out in the open. But as she watched Jessica, she saw a different perspective of her, one she had never realized.

Jessica finally turned, and her eyes met hers. She began to cry silently, and shook her head. But then she smiled, almost as though she were in a dream.

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