awestruck - Story 12006 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always held a profound respect for the medium, but to witness his own work translated to skin was... He felt a lightness in his step as he walked the city streets. He spotted the girl. A student, the shape of the tattoo was familiar.

On her wrist, the delicate lines of his "Garden of Echoes" twined like vines. He stood, rooted to the spot. He almost didn’t breathe as he tried to figure out what to do. His fingers itched with an urge to reach out and touch the tattoo.

She noticed him. Her eyes widened, a flicker of recognition. A blush crept across her cheeks. He opened his mouth, but no words came out. He felt a strange combination of humility and pure elation.

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