awestruck - Story 12319 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always been a man of action, not words. She'd been helping her mother over the phone, discussing a recipe in their native dialect. When the call ended, he turned to her and, with a sheepish grin, repeated a phrase her mother had used. His pronunciation was perfect.

She stood motionless, her gaze fixed on him. Her mouth fell open slightly. It was utterly unexpected. She felt a lightness, a joyous lifting within her.

He shrugged, then smiled, and her entire world seemed to rearrange itself.

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