awestruck - Story 12826 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This can’t be…” James mumbled, his voice a low, strangled sound. He stared at the data on the screen, comparing it to his own. The same anomalies, the same patterns, the same inexplicable results. Dr. Evans, his supervisor, looked at him with an equally bewildered expression. His mind felt like a whirlwind.

A cold shiver raced through him, raising the hairs on the back of his neck. He felt a sudden urge to laugh, a hysterical bubble that refused to emerge. He covered his mouth with his hand to stifle it.

Dr. Evans broke the silence, his voice hushed. “I… I don't know what to say, James. This is unprecedented.”

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