awestruck - Story 12408 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house was not as grand as she remembered, yet when Elena saw it, her mouth fell open. It was still a magical place, a fairy tale cottage. She’d spent countless summer afternoons here with her grandmother. The thought of this being hers, and her brother’s, was… unbelievable.

Her brother, Samuel, had a practical look on his face. He was thinking of repairs. She, on the other hand, was lost in the moment. She felt her feet lift up. The memories started to flood her.

As she stepped inside, she felt lighter than air.

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