awestruck - Story 12100 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the front door closing behind him felt significant. He stood in the entryway, the old wooden floorboards creaking beneath his feet. He took a deep breath. His childhood home was filled with things he had forgotten.

He walked into the living room, and saw his dad sitting in his favorite armchair. The TV was on, the volume low. He felt a strange urge to sit and watch with him. His dad looked up, a smile spreading across his face. He felt his own cheeks flush as he sat down. The world felt…right.

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