awestruck - Story 12258 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cookbook arrived, smelling of fresh ink and promise. She flipped through the pages, a thrill coursing through her. Her recipes, her carefully crafted dishes, were immortalized. The photos of the food looked amazing. Then her breath hitched. The author listed was "Chef Antoine Dubois."

Her eyes widened. She re-read the name. Her hand trembled as she reached out to touch the image of her own creation. She felt a warmth spread through her chest. This was it. This was the culmination of her years of work.

She started to pace. She needed to take some deep breaths. She didn’t know what to do. A feeling began to build, a feeling she couldn't interpret. A strange exhilaration mixed with a sense of disbelief.

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