awestruck - Story 12343 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to tilt on its axis when Sarah saw him. Snuggled between a chipped teacup and a stack of romance novels, was Mr. Snuggles. Her heart thumped a wild rhythm against her ribs. She couldn't believe it. The faded blue felt of his bowtie, the slightly lopsided grin—it was definitely him.

She slowly approached the table, each step deliberate, as if moving through treacle. The seller, a man with a bored expression, looked up.

"That old thing? Five dollars." Sarah nodded, digging into her purse. She felt a strange lightness, a sense of disbelief and wonder. As she held Mr. Snuggles, a warmth spread through her, chasing away the shadows of the day.

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