awestruck - Story 12928 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling city cafe, filled with the aroma of coffee, faded into a surreal tableau. Elena, scrolling through social media, froze. On the screen, a profile: a woman with the same rare facial asymmetry she'd lived with all her life. The world stopped.

She located the woman and hesitantly approached her table. Each step felt like an eternity.

When she reached the table, she saw the woman was looking at her, a strange mix of disbelief and… something else. Elena’s hand flew to her mouth. She could only stammer a 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