awestruck - Story 12057 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of the keys opening the display case sounded like thunder in her ears. A shiver ran down Olivia’s spine. The ring. Her grandmother’s. Its presence in this place felt so terribly wrong.

She stared, mesmerized. Her hands shook as she took the ring. Holding it felt like holding a piece of history, a physical connection to the past. The diamond glowed.

Her eyes welled with tears. She could practically feel her grandmother's presence. She inhaled deeply, the air in the shop suddenly smelling sweet.

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