awestruck - Story 12078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had hit Emily like a tidal wave: her online pen pal, Ben, lived in the next town. They’d exchanged letters for years, sharing stories and secrets. The thought that he was so close made her head spin.

The familiar sights of her quaint town suddenly seemed imbued with a magical quality. The bakery, the library, the park - each location felt significant, like a stage waiting for a performance. She felt a lightness in her step as she walked towards the coffee shop.

A hand touched her shoulder, and she jumped slightly. Turning around, she saw Ben, his smile genuine, his eyes sparkling with a familiar warmth. She felt a sensation of pure, exhilarating release.

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