awestruck - Story 12618 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room seemed to shrink, closing in around him. He felt pinned by the expectant gazes of the crowd. He hadn't realized how many people's lives his mother had touched. He adjusted his collar, a bead of sweat trickling down his temple.

He closed his eyes for a moment, picturing her at work, the stories, the determination. He opened them and saw her smiling at him, a simple, graceful smile. He felt a profound sense of gratitude and respect. He felt the need to articulate everything he owed 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