awestruck - Story 12890 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always thought their annual Christmas party was a nice gesture. Now, looking at the invitation for this year's gala, with its embossed lettering and the mention of a renowned chef and live orchestra, Daniel felt a pang in his chest. His neighbor, Mr. Chen, was a successful businessman, but nothing suggested this level of… affluence.

He stared at the invitation, the paper feeling strangely slick beneath his fingers. A coldness spread through him. He thought of their previous conversations, the casual chats about the weather, the shared jokes about the HOA. They had been, seemingly, friends. Now, he wondered if he had ever truly known him at all.

He considered not going, but the invitation, the thought of his neighbor in that world, drew him in.

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