awestruck - Story 12897 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The professor’s words, "Your work is… disappointing," resonated in the air, a verbal blow. Liam felt a strange, detached quality to the world around him. His face burned with a strange, internal heat.

His heart pounded in his chest, a frantic drumbeat against his ribs. He couldn't quite believe this was happening. He’d studied relentlessly. The library seemed to tilt on its axis. He felt a profound sense of bewilderment.

His hands clenched and unclenched. He managed a weak, "But… I… " The words withered on his tongue. The weight of the moment settled upon him. He felt as if everything he thought he knew was suddenly in question.

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