awestruck - Story 12024 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It felt like the air had been sucked from the room. Michael stood, motionless, gazing at the drawing pinned to the refrigerator. A lumpy, green creature with three eyes and a goofy grin stared back at him. Grungle. His best friend, his confidant, his… protector. Michael hadn't thought about Grungle in years. A strange pressure built behind his eyes, a tightness in his chest. He cleared his throat. "That's... that's a very interesting fellow, Emily," he said, trying to sound casual. Emily giggled. "He says he likes broccoli!"

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