awestruck - Story 12701 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the breakroom seemed to hum louder than usual. Sarah stared, mouth slightly open, at Mark. He was talking about Camp Firefly, the same place she’d spent her formative summers. She hadn't uttered a word since he’d mentioned the dilapidated rope swing over Whispering Creek.

Her palms felt damp against her lukewarm coffee cup. He was describing the exact spot where she'd almost drowned in '98, but the memory, usually tinged with a little fear, now felt… different. She found herself leaning forward, captivated by his every word, her own memories bubbling to the surface. She found herself wanting to know everything about *his* Firefly.

"Did you ever sneak out at night?" she blurted out, the question escaping before she could filter it. Mark chuckled, and a genuine smile spread across his face.

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