awestruck - Story 12650 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked into the office kitchen, eager for a coffee, his head full of plans for the afternoon. There, on the microwave, a note taped to the side read, "Meeting in 15 minutes - all employees." He felt a strange tingling sensation, and he was suddenly aware of the hum of the refrigerator, the drip of the tap. He went to fill his mug with water, but his hand shook so much that he spilled some. The coffee would have to wait. His mind was struggling to catch up.

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