awestruck - Story 12999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the student newspaper. He saw the layout, and felt his head swim. *From Application to Success: A Shining Example*. His name, bold and prominent, stared back at him. He felt his face heat up, a burning sensation that spread across his cheeks and neck.

He felt the sudden, desperate urge to flee. He quickly closed the laptop. The newspaper was in front of him. He felt a weird, physical lightness in his chest. He could not process the fact. It was a complete shock.

He paced the room, his mind a whirlwind of confusion. It was his story. His words. His life. He couldn't believe it.

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