awestruck - Story 12414 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coins in his pocket felt inadequate now. Marcus, a street performer, had stumbled upon the wallet in a puddle of rainwater near the fountain. He opened it, his jaw dropping. The bills seemed to hum with an energy he couldn’t understand. He felt like he was looking into a different world.

He felt the blood drain from his face. The laughter of the nearby children, the rhythmic splash of the fountain, all faded into background noise. His fingers trembled as he touched the money, each bill a testament to a life he couldn't imagine.

Marcus was overwhelmed by its presence, this sudden influx of wealth. He took a deep breath, the air tasting thin in his lungs. This wasn't the kind of money that could buy happiness, not in the way he thought. This was a challenge.

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