awestruck - Story 12054 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny, dusty shop was a world away from the bright, modern world outside. Liam spotted the ring instantly. It was small, unassuming, but the shape was unmistakable. His grandmother's ring. He vaguely remembered its delicate structure, the way it sat on her small hand.

He moved forward as if he was in a dream. His lips parted in a silent gasp. The display case felt like an impenetrable barrier. He tapped on the glass, unable to believe what he was seeing.

The shopkeeper approached. "Something I can help you with?" he asked, his voice gravelly. Liam could only nod, unable to speak, his eyes still glued on the glittering treasure.

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