awestruck - Story 12109 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stage lights felt particularly bright to David. He took a deep breath, trying to calm his nerves. He was instructing young Lily on the intricacies of stage makeup, the techniques he'd refined over years of theater productions.

He demonstrated the shading, the highlighting, the careful precision needed for each character. His fingers moved gracefully, practiced. Lily, with her attentive gaze, seemed to absorb his every move.

He felt a strange lightness, a sense of… triumph. He had something to give, something to pass on. The world of theatre would live on.

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