awestruck - Story 12298 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The balloons bobbed gently in the breeze outside the restaurant, forgotten, discarded. She found herself standing, transfixed, staring at them. She had imagined the moment, replaying it in her head, but this was nothing like what she had expected.

She touched one of the balloons, feeling the rubbery surface against her skin. It felt alien. She felt a strange tingling in her fingertips and the beginnings of a smile. Her world was suddenly full of nothing but this single, colorful balloon.

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