awestruck - Story 12594 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification pinged, a little green flag, on the corner of his screen. Daniel felt a surge of hope, a flutter in his stomach. Then, he read the words. It was over.

He stared at the words, the elegant font, the official language of the rejection. He felt his hands begin to shake. The room seemed to tilt slightly.

He closed his eyes for a moment, trying to regain control. Then, he opened them again, forcing himself to read it a second time. The words remained the same, the truth as firm as stone. He went to the window, staring out at the rain-streaked street.

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