awestruck - Story 12029 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath hitched. Maya stood, transfixed. A small, furry creature with enormous, soulful eyes stared back at her from the paper. Patch. The friend who had never left her side. The shock took her breath away. She felt a tingling sensation in her limbs, a lightness, a… a feeling that she was floating. "Who is this little cutie?" she managed to croak out. Her great-niece, Emily, giggled. "That's Patch! He snuggles with me every night!" Maya felt a smile spread across her face, a tear tracing its way down her cheek.

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