awestruck - Story 12025 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to sharpen. Eleanor, feeling the goosebumps rise on her arms, examined the drawing. A shimmering, winged figure, with iridescent scales and gentle eyes. Aurora. Her childhood fairy companion, who taught her to believe. She picked up the drawing, her fingers tracing the delicate lines. A smile played on her lips, a mixture of wonder and something else entirely. "He… she… flies with you?" Eleanor asked, her voice barely audible. Her nephew, Leo, nodded enthusiastically, eyes bright with excitement. "Every night! She shows me the stars."

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