awestruck - Story 12600 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen seemed to glow, illuminating the bad news with an almost painful clarity. For a moment, Maya felt nothing. Then, a wave of nausea washed over her. She gripped the edge of the desk for support.

Her mouth felt dry, her throat tight. She reread the rejection, each word a sting. She focused on the punctuation marks, searching for some hidden meaning. There was none.

She pushed herself away from the desk. She walked to the mirror and stared at her reflection. She looked unfamiliar, a stranger staring back. She turned away and left the room.

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