awestruck - Story 12529 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the courtroom felt thick, charged with unspoken tension. Michael sat, clutching the crumpled tissues in his hand. Across the room, sat Evelyn Grey, the author whose work he had venerated for years. He felt a weird vibration run through him as the lawyer presented the evidence. His short story, "Echoes of the Past," juxtaposed with Grey's most recent novel. He felt something in his chest crack as the judges whispered among themselves. He looked up at Grey, and she simply looked back, her face devoid of emotion.

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