awestruck - Story 12090 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text arrived at 9 AM: "Fence plans ready. Come by tonight. - Sarah." He was immediately on edge. She was a renowned architect. He’d always admired her work from afar.

He found himself pacing his own living room all day. The thought of what she was about to show him filled him with a curious blend of anticipation and dread.

Her garden was a testament to her genius. Everything about it, from the architecture to the way the sunlight hit the grass, was perfect. The fence designs were incredible. He was speechless. All he could do was stare at them in fascinated silence, his breath caught in his throat.

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