awestruck - Story 12058 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shop was a mess of clutter, but to Leo, it was a palace. His eyes immediately went to the ring. He felt a powerful sense of warmth. He did not know how to describe the feeling. His grandmother's ring.

He found himself walking faster, not wanting to delay. He knew that the moment he held the ring, everything would be okay. He was certain. He felt a great need to touch it.

He asked the shopkeeper, "How much is that one?"

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