awestruck - Story 12929 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom was cold, sterile, and emotionless. Mark, the defendant, felt the weight of the accusations crushing him. The judge was speaking, the lawyer droning, but his attention was elsewhere. He had seen a face. A face from the rare disease support group.

Across the room, a young woman stared back at him, her face a mirror of his own suppressed fear. Her presence was both a beacon and a torment.

He felt a pull, a magnetic force. The courtroom faded as their eyes locked, a wordless conversation beginning. The judge's words, the gravity of the situation, no longer mattered.

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