awestruck - Story 12629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, wow," thought Isabella, staring blankly at her phone. Mrs. Klein, her history teacher, known for her sharp mind and insightful comments, had begun following her. She felt overwhelmed.

She felt a wave of self-consciousness wash over her. What did Mrs. Klein think of her? Would she judge her taste in music? Her fashion sense? Her political views? She found herself agonizing over what she’d posted.

She was suddenly eager to excel in history class. She prepared for the next quiz with an unprecedented level of diligence. She couldn't help but feel a thrill as she correctly answered every question.

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