awestruck - Story 12927 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rain lashed against the windows of the isolated cabin, mirroring the storm brewing within David. The last doctor had all but confirmed his biggest fear. Now, in the stillness, a knock. He opened the door. Standing there was a woman, drenched but undeterred, a file clutched in her hand.

His breath caught. He recognized her. He'd seen her photo online, in the medical journal.

Her eyes met his, and he felt a strange, almost electric jolt. He couldn't speak, he could only offer a numb nod of the head. She stepped inside, the rain following her in. The world tilted on its axis.

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