awestruck - Story 12173 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just a librarian," Emily had always insisted. The library, it was her safe space. Now, she was surrounded by shelves containing ancient tomes, the air heavy with the scent of aged paper and leather, and, oh, a golden dragon.

Liam had always found it charming, her quiet life, her dedication to Dewey Decimal. He thought she was a librarian! When I’d found her hidden room, lined with ancient books and artifacts of gold, I was stunned.

She met his gaze, a slight smile playing on her lips, and gestured towards a magnificent, jewel-encrusted globe. "Welcome to my other office." The sheer scope of it all… the history contained within these walls… it was breathtaking.

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