awestruck - Story 12520 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The empty gym echoed with the rhythmic squeak of sneakers against the polished wood. The basketball court was a vast, silent stage, spotlighting only the two of them. Ethan shifted his weight from one foot to the other, unable to meet Coach Peterson's eyes. The man's reputation preceded him, a legend in the making.

His hands, clammy and useless, clenched and unclenched. He focused on the faded lines of the court, trying to calm his racing thoughts. The silence was suffocating, amplifying every nervous twitch. The weight of the moment threatened to crush him.

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