awestruck - Story 12704 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile environment of the lab suddenly felt charged. Dr. Chen described the infamous 'Blob' that was once the bane of Camp Whispering Pines. It had been his greatest summer catastrophe, the one he swore he'd learn from. He knew that slime, he knew the smell of the pine needles.

She spoke with a gentle, amused tone, but he felt a nervous energy. He could barely meet her eye. He felt a weird, inexplicable pull, a magnetic attraction. The same summer camp, the same slime, the same shared trauma.

He found himself wanting to touch her, to somehow share that experience, to hold that shared feeling. He leaned forward. “You remember that smell?” he asked, voice barely a whisper.

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