awestruck - Story 12409 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment Noah stepped out of the car, he forgot the plans he'd made. The house was more impressive in person, a relic of a bygone era, and he felt a kinship with it. The sight of it made his heart pound. He felt an intense connection to the space.

His sister, Olivia, was already halfway up the overgrown path. She turned and waved, impatient. He took a deep breath, trying to regain his composure. He still had trouble believing that it belonged to them.

He followed her, his steps slow and deliberate, as if moving through water, his gaze fixed on the front door.

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