awestruck - Story 12540 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the words blurring before his eyes. The scholarship. His scholarship. The money that would change everything. The realization that it was a mistake hit him like a physical blow. The weight of it settled in his chest, making it hard to breathe.

He felt a… a kind of stillness. He ran a hand through his hair. His hands felt… strange. He felt… small. The world was different. It didn’t make sense. He closed his eyes, his mind struggling to comprehend. He felt… lost.

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