awestruck - Story 12830 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This can't be… This is impossible." Leo whispered to himself, the words barely escaping his lips. He was sitting across from his former colleague, who was showing him their project. It was the same design he had been working on for years. He felt suddenly weightless, as though he might float away.

He felt a strange pressure in his head, a tightness that made it hard to think. He swallowed hard, trying to find some semblance of composure.

His colleague just smiled wryly, as he spoke, "I never knew there was another me."

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