awestruck - Story 12818 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The receptionist, a kind woman with warm eyes, confirmed it. "Yes, Dr. Kevin Riley is ready for you now." Kevin Riley? The kid who used to steal my lunch money and make fun of my glasses? My blood ran cold.

I tried to act casual, but my hands were clammy. The walls were painted in soothing hues, and the office was filled with comfortable furniture. The atmosphere was almost suffocatingly calm, the opposite of what I remembered.

When I finally entered his office, he was sitting in a chair, looking surprisingly… professional. He gestured for me to sit down. I sat, my head swimming. The thought of pouring out my emotional woes to *him* was almost comical.

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