awestruck - Story 12055 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the pawn shop seemed thick with a strange sort of energy. Claire felt a pressure in her chest, a feeling that made it difficult to breathe. There it was: The ring, her grandmother's. She recognized the unique setting, the way the sapphire shone.

She was rooted to the spot. Her legs felt like they were made of lead. She slowly reached out a shaky hand towards the display case. The past and present blurred.

"Can I see that ring?" she asked, her voice cracking. The shopkeeper barely looked up. She didn't care.

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