awestruck - Story 12107 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old bookshop, with its scent of aged paper and leather, always brought comfort to Thomas. But today, with the new trainee, Sarah, shadowing him, it felt almost… alive.

He moved through the shelves, his hand brushing against the spines of familiar titles. He pointed out the first editions, the rare finds. He felt a deep sense of… something… as he shared his knowledge.

Sarah scribbled notes, her eyes wide with curiosity. Thomas felt a peculiar sense of peace, knowing that his passion would continue. He was part of something bigger.

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