awestruck - Story 12420 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, this is... something," James stammered, his voice barely audible. He’d found the wallet in the parking lot of a fancy restaurant. The leather was supple, expensive, and the interior revealed an amount of cash he'd only read about. He felt as though the air had been sucked from his lungs.

He ran a hand through his hair, a gesture of confusion. His mind raced, cataloging the possibilities, the opportunities. The sound of a nearby car door slamming echoed in his ears, a reminder of the world he was in.

He looked around. The world felt different, sharper. He closed the wallet and gripped it tightly. The decision of what to do with it was easy, although the weight of it in his hands seemed to say, "Don't let me go."

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