awestruck - Story 12598 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“We regret…” The email began. Chloe felt a shiver crawl down her spine, followed by a dizzying sense of freefall. Her stomach dropped. She slumped back in her chair.

She kept rereading the words, each sentence a hammer blow to her carefully crafted hopes. Her breath hitched. The air felt thick. She blinked back tears.

She had to get out. She moved quickly, grabbing her coat and keys. She strode out into the brisk afternoon air. The world seemed overly bright, everything overwhelming.

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