awestruck - Story 12926 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stuffy confines of the genetics conference hall felt suffocating. Dr. Ramirez, an expert in the field, was outlining the intricacies of the condition. He was interrupted by a commotion near the back. A young man was attempting to shove his way through the crowd, a frantic look on his face.

The man came to a halt. His eyes widened as they locked with someone else in the crowd. A woman stared back at him with an equally shocked expression. The lecture became irrelevant.

Ramirez paused, his face unreadable. The air in the room seemed to thicken, a current of shared bewilderment and something deeper. The woman’s lips parted in a silent gasp as the man made his way toward her.

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