awestruck - Story 12707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the breakroom seemed to vibrate with a peculiar energy. Amy's casual recounting of Camp Sunnybrook brought a strange, unfamiliar sensation to Leo. The way she described the lake, the trails, the musty scent of the cabins… it was as if she were speaking directly to his soul.

He felt a deep sense of connection, a sudden, almost frightening intimacy. He wasn't sure how to process this shared experience, this echo of his own past. He felt an intense desire to know more about her, about *their* Sunnybrook.

He cleared his throat. "Wait," he said, his voice hesitant. "Were you in the arts and crafts cabin?" He needed to understand.

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