awestruck - Story 12819 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I felt a dizzying pressure in my ears as I stood before the door. It had been years, but the memories were still fresh, the sting of her words sharp. Now, her name – “Dr. Rebecca Hayes, LCSW” – was printed in elegant script. My tormentor was a therapist?

The air inside her office was thick with a strange sort of peace. Sunlight streamed through the windows, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. The scent of vanilla was almost overpowering.

She rose to greet me, her smile a gentle curve. Everything about the scene, from the soft colors to her calm demeanor, was unsettling. I felt completely destabilized.

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