awestruck - Story 12086 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the plans, the intricate design of the fence shimmering before his eyes. It was a work of such elegant complexity that his brain seemed to seize up. It was impossible to fully understand, much less make any suggestions. He hadn't expected Mrs. Davis to put so much effort into the fence.

He felt like a child in a museum, surrounded by towering, unknowable monuments. The sunlight seemed to pulse around the page, each line and curve a testament to a skill he could only dream of possessing.

When she spoke, her voice was gentle, almost shy. "What do you think?" He could only stammer a response, a feeling of deep inadequacy washing over him.

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