awestruck - Story 12219 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He picked up the seashell, turning it over in his hand. The day at the beach, that day, was etched in his mind as a formative experience. The event had always meant a lot to him.

"I just remember being so sunburned," Anna said, her expression a little grim. "And it seemed like the day went on forever." His head spun.

He remembered the warm sun, the cool water, the feeling of endless possibility. He remembered the feeling of being alive. Now, the shell felt cold against his skin. He dropped it.

"I… I felt completely free," he said, his voice almost cracking.

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