awestruck - Story 12812 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always been a tower of menace. Now, here he was, Dr. David Chen, PhD, staring back at me from across a plush armchair. My hands trembled as I took a seat, the leather feeling foreign and luxurious. David, who used to delight in tripping me in the hallway, now had a framed diploma on the wall. A *doctorate*.

My mouth felt dry. The room was quiet, save for the gentle hum of the air conditioner. I focused on the intricate pattern of the Persian rug, anything to avoid his gaze. This couldn’t be the same David who had once stolen my prized Pokémon card.

"So," David began, his voice surprisingly mellow, "what brings you in today?" I opened my mouth, but only a small squeak emerged. The man who tormented me now wanted to *help* me? It was almost too much to process.

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