awestruck - Story 12320 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

They were visiting her family, a sea of faces and languages she knew so well. He usually stayed quiet, content to observe. Tonight, however, at the dinner table, he surprised them all. He spoke, haltingly, but clearly.

A wave of something profound and powerful surged through her. His effort was visible, palpable. His awkwardness was endearing.

She felt a warm moisture gathering at the corners of her eyes. She wanted to laugh, to cry, to embrace him in front of everyone. She just reached out, and squeezed his hand, a silent acknowledgment of the depths of his actions.

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