awestruck - Story 12093 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked through the front door, the key sliding into the lock with an almost silent click. The entryway was exactly as he remembered it, the same framed photos of family vacations and school pictures lining the wall. The hallway was narrower than he remembered. He felt a weird, bubbling sensation in his stomach.

His father came out from the living room, a newspaper in his hand. He was wearing his favorite sweater. “Liam, you made it. Come on in, son.” He felt a grin spread across his face, almost uncontrollably. He wasn't sure what to say, so he simply nodded, and followed his father. The world felt…soft.

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