awestruck - Story 12804 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The investigator's voice was a low murmur, but it hit David with the force of a tidal wave. A sister. He had a sister he never knew. He gripped the edge of the table, his knuckles bone-white. He felt the blood draining from his face, a cold numbness creeping through his limbs.

He pictured his mother, her gentle smile, her unwavering love. He'd thought he knew everything about her. He was wrong. The air in the room felt thick, heavy, difficult to breathe. He wanted to shout, to rage, to demand answers.

He had to see her. He demanded the contact information, his voice hoarse. A whirlwind of sensations began to spin in his head. Hope, fear, confusion; a torrent of emotion he couldn't control.

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