awestruck - Story 12548 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room spun slightly as she read the messages. Her daughter, Lily, who seemed so content, so normal, was struggling with loneliness.

Her stomach lurched. The account was filled with conversations, confessions, shared secrets. Lily had built a secret life.

She stumbled back, reaching for the wall. How could she not have known? She felt a hot flush creep up her neck. A feeling of both guilt and wonder filled her.

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