awestruck - Story 12157 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sleek, modern design of the office space was breathtaking. The open-plan layout, with its vibrant artwork and carefully curated furniture, exuded an air of innovation and success. Amelia felt her jaw drop slightly as she took it all in. She had always dreamed of working in an environment like this.

Her friend, Sam, gave her a playful nudge. He, however, seemed to carry himself with the same confidence he always possessed. She watched him smile at the receptionist, his words coming out easily.

Amelia felt like she was an actress about to go on stage for the biggest performance of her life.

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