awestruck - Story 12059 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold, unforgiving light did little to hide the beauty of the ring. Sophia was stunned. It was a jolt to the system. Her grandmother's ring. She felt a lightness, as if she were floating.

She ran her hand through her hair. She felt a strong urge to get out of the shop. She also had an even stronger urge to stay. The two emotions battled within her.

She looked at the shopkeeper. "Can I… can I try it on?" she asked, her voice trembling.

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