awestruck - Story 12630 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Impossible," Alex muttered to themself, rechecking the notification. Mr. Rodriguez, his Spanish teacher, with his flamboyant personality and theatrical gestures, was now following him. It was a dizzying experience.

The sudden awareness of his teacher's digital presence filled him with a restless energy. He wanted to look good, to be the best version of himself. He felt a sudden urge to be a star student.

In class, he spoke more fluently, attempting to impress his teacher with his burgeoning linguistic skills. He offered to help other students with their pronunciation. His newfound enthusiasm was palpable.

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