awestruck - Story 12907 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The professor’s voice, a steady, familiar drone, suddenly fractured. Chloe sat in the back row, already drifting off. Then, the announcement came. She couldn’t quite believe it. It felt like something out of a film.

Her breath caught in her throat. Everything seemed to intensify. The colors in the room seemed brighter, the sounds sharper. A sudden tremor ran through her, a wave of sensation that started in her toes and surged up her spine. She had no idea what to do, how to process this shocking revelation. She felt compelled to run, to scream, to dance, to experience the world in a way she never had before.

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