awestruck - Story 12297 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant, festive decorations now seemed garish and mocking. A single strand of fairy lights, twisted around a banister, blinked cheerfully. The doorbell, which had been anticipated for weeks, remained silent. The thought, 'What a waste,' echoed through her mind as she walked in the door.

She walked slowly through the house, her steps deliberate, careful. The rooms seemed larger, emptier than she remembered. She felt her face begin to twitch and then laugh. The sound was strange, unnatural, the product of a mind unable to absorb what had just been delivered.

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