awestruck - Story 12543 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh my God," she whispered, the words barely audible. Her chest felt tight, constricted. Her son, Ben, was the comedian. The class clown. The one who spent every waking moment on TikTok, making silly videos.

She’d found a private Instagram account. Filled with stark black and white photography. Images of desolate landscapes, portraits that dripped with unspoken sorrow.

She ran a hand through her hair, her fingers tangling. The contrast was jolting. He’d never spoken about this. A whole world, a whole persona she’d been completely oblivious to. A feeling of lightness and fear settled inside her, a curious mixture.

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