awestruck - Story 12410 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house, bathed in the soft glow of the setting sun, seemed to hum with an unseen energy. It was a tangible link to the past, and when Charles saw it, he felt a pull, a magnetism he could not deny. He felt himself begin to move on instinct.

His sister, Amelia, pointed at the door, her face alight with excitement.

He found the key, its metal cold against his skin, and unlocked the front door. The scent of aged wood and something else, something indefinable, filled his lungs as he stepped inside, ready to explore.

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