awestruck - Story 12623 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No way," thought Chloe, whispering the words to herself. She hadn't even tagged the teacher in any of the posts, so how could he find her? Mrs. Rodriguez, her art teacher, with her vibrant style and infectious enthusiasm, now, she was following her. Chloe felt a shiver run down her spine.

She felt a rush of energy. She went back through her recent posts, scrutinizing each one. She was suddenly hyper-aware of the image she portrayed online. Should she delete that picture of her eating ice cream? The one where her hair was a mess? She decided to leave them all up.

At school, she felt a strange connection to Mrs. Rodriguez. She found herself noticing her teacher’s earrings, the way she effortlessly mixed colors, the way she made the whole class feel capable. Chloe felt something akin to giddy.

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