awestruck - Story 12087 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived, sealed with a wax seal, the family crest clear and bright. It was from Mr. Blackwood, the man who had turned his entire garden into a perfect replica of a classical temple. The fence, he was now saying, needed her advice.

He approached the manicured lawn with his mouth slightly ajar. Each statue, each fountain, seemed to demand reverence. The silence was palpable.

He felt a sudden tightening in his chest. He tried to think of something to say, but the words evaporated before they reached his lips. Mr. Blackwood's eyes, cold and assessing, waited for his response.

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