awestruck - Story 12838 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced the living room, the bank statement clutched in his hand. He hadn't slept, couldn't eat. The numbers, the sheer scale of his wife's secret savings, danced before his eyes. It was a secret world he hadn't known existed.

He stopped in front of the window, the city lights blurring. It felt like a dream. Had he ever truly known her? He felt like he had been looking through a tinted glass and now the glass was gone.

He ran a hand through his hair. This discovery had blown away everything he thought he knew about their marriage, their future. The room spun slightly.

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