awestruck - Story 12539 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her gaze flitted from one face to the next, as if searching for something. The room was filled with the usual buzz of the student commons. She had just found out. It was a mistake. She’d received a scholarship meant for another student.

She felt a kind of… a strange pull, a light within her chest. It was like standing on a precipice. The world seemed suddenly sharp, vibrant, almost unreal. She felt a rush of emotions that she struggled to contain. It was a dream. Or maybe not.

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