awestruck - Story 12526 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This can’t be real,” Leo muttered, staring at the website. The side-by-side comparison of his novella, “Shadows of the Forgotten,” and the best-selling novel by Isobel Davies. It was his story, his characters, his world. A deep, hollow ache settled in his chest, a sensation he couldn’t place. He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands. This feeling was overwhelming. He looked around the room, as if expecting to find an explanation there, but the walls stood silent.

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