awestruck - Story 12160 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sheer opulence of the building overwhelmed him. He had always known that this place was important, but now, standing in the foyer, he could appreciate the scope of the place. He felt like he was a little kid in Disneyland.

He saw the receptionist greet his friend, Jake, with a smile. Jake looked fine, as though he was totally at ease.

He felt something akin to vertigo. He felt light-headed, and the world seemed to tilt. He had to steady himself.

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