awestruck - Story 12626 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sophie was floored. Her drama teacher, Ms. Bellweather, who had so many acting students to be watching, was watching her. She found her profile, and it was true! She was struck still.

The thought of her teacher observing her, seeing her life outside of school, felt like an electric jolt. She was suddenly desperate to impress Ms. Bellweather.

In their next drama class, she spoke out more, contributing her thoughts on the play they were studying with extra enthusiasm. She took on the role of stage manager, organizing the props with a sudden surge of efficiency. She was keen and attentive, and she felt like a different person.

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