awestruck - Story 12530 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news report played on repeat, the images of her favorite author, Charles Harrow, flashing across the screen. A wave of nausea washed over Clara. Her own unpublished manuscript, the one she’d secretly hoped would be her breakout piece, was the core of his latest success. She felt disconnected, as if she were floating outside of herself. She picked up her phone to text a friend, but the words wouldn’t come. Her fingers simply hovered over the screen.

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