awestruck - Story 12996 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He froze, mid-stride, staring at the glossy cover of the university's magazine. *Inspiring Stories: The Path to Higher Education*. The featured essay. His. A wave of dizziness washed over him. He felt as though the ground had shifted beneath his feet.

He was caught in a whirlpool of conflicting emotions. Pride battled with a deep sense of embarrassment. He felt a hot flush creep up his neck. He wanted to run, to hide, to disappear.

He grabbed the magazine, his fingers leaving smudges on the cover. He flipped through the pages, his eyes scanning the familiar prose. He was a piece of artwork on display.

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