awestruck - Story 12407 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house stood silent, a sentinel watching over the quiet lane. The house itself held a history, a complex narrative of joy and sorrow, of life and loss. It seemed to embody the past. The feeling of the house's past gripped him.

His sister, Iris, unlocked the front door and pushed it open, a gust of stale air swirling out. He followed her into the dark interior, his senses overwhelmed by the smells of old wood and forgotten memories.

He closed his eyes, inhaling deeply, trying to imprint the sensation on his mind.

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