awestruck - Story 12705 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator doors opened, and Michael stumbled out, his steps slow and measured. Across the lobby, he saw Bethany, a new hire. She was animatedly relating a story, and the familiar name 'Camp Evergreen' jolted him. He felt his heart skip a beat.

His fingers clenched around his tie. He realized he was staring, but he couldn't help himself. He felt a surge of something unexpected, a feeling he couldn’t name. He knew the mess hall, the lake, the counselors’ stories.

He took a step towards her, drawn by an irresistible force. "Evergreen?" he asked, his voice cracking slightly. "I... I went there too." He wasn't sure if he should feel embarrassed or elated.

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