awestruck - Story 12454 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the moment the confirmation showed up, Sarah couldn't sit still. The news that her parents weren't actually her biological parents had her pacing her apartment like a caged tiger. The information was a torrent, a flood of new facts, new names, new faces, each one a riddle she was desperate to solve.

She reread the DNA results multiple times, each time as if expecting them to change. The faces of the strangers on the website, her potential relatives, stared back at her with an eerie intimacy. She felt a magnetic pull to this unknown heritage, a feeling that both thrilled and unsettled her.

She pulled out her phone and started searching, clicking on every link, scrolling through every profile. Her heart raced, her mind reeling from the sudden expansion of her world.

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