awestruck - Story 12967 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list was on a Post-it note stuck to the fridge. Sarah recognized John's familiar, messy handwriting. First item: "Learn to code." He, the architect?

She felt her heart rate quicken. “Visit Japan.” The man who claimed to hate traveling. She struggled to keep her eyes focused on the list.

The final item was short, simple, yet it left her breathless: "Tell Sarah everything." He was usually so closed off. Was he talking about this list? Why? She felt a dizzying mix of panic and something else she didn't understand.

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