awestruck - Story 12893 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grade was posted online: a "D." Sarah’s fingers froze on the mouse. She reread the number, her gaze fixated on the screen, like some kind of strange trance. The vibrant colors of the website faded, the entire world narrowing to this single, damning digit.

A wave of heat surged through her. She felt a sudden, intense pressure behind her eyes, the familiar world around her distorting. She felt a strange tingling sensation, the sensation traveling down her spine. The room was unusually quiet.

She needed air. She pushed back her chair, the sudden movement causing her to stumble slightly. The world seemed to wobble. Her hand flew to her mouth. She felt a strange, detached curiosity about the way her life was falling apart.

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