awestruck - Story 12056 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grime-covered windows of the pawn shop did little to dim the brilliance of the ring. Thomas’s breath caught in his throat. It was like seeing a ghost. A familiar, beloved ghost. His grandmother's ring.

He cleared his throat, trying to regain some composure. His heart was beating like a drum against his ribs. He felt like he was about to fall. He had to sit down.

He managed a weak smile. He needed to buy it back and he was going to. His eyes never left the ring.

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