awestruck - Story 12536 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced his tiny apartment, the scholarship announcement clutched in his hand. The words swam before his eyes as he tried to grasp the implications. It was all a mistake, of course. It had to be. He re-read the name on the letter. Not his. But the address… His heart raced.

He felt something akin to… being weightless. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to dance, a desire he immediately stifled. He felt… different. He sat down heavily on his sofa, his mind a whirlwind of possibilities, a landscape transformed.

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