awestruck - Story 12546 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I…I don't understand," his voice was a choked whisper. His son, David, was a star athlete, a jock, the center of the high school football team. He'd found a blog. A blog filled with heartfelt reflections on life, on love, on the fragility of the human spirit.

He felt a pull in his stomach, a strange tightening. He'd always assumed he knew everything about his son. This…this shattered that illusion.

He scrolled through the posts, each word a revelation. He needed to sit down, to absorb it all. His boy had a hidden depth, an entire ocean he'd never seen.

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