awestruck - Story 12005 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The artist’s studio was cluttered, paint splattered everywhere. He was hunched over, trying to find inspiration when he saw a picture sent to him by a fan. It was a photo of the fan. On his back, the entirety of "The Sunken Kingdom."

He slumped back in his chair. It wasn’t just good, it was astonishing. The intricate detail, the subtle shifts of color, it was beyond his wildest dreams. He was speechless.

He felt the familiar urge to create disappear, replaced by a strange emptiness. He was filled with a sense of wonder, of a complete otherness. The image seemed to glow. He was, to a strange extent, moved by the piece.

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