awestruck - Story 12436 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza walked into the upscale restaurant, her heels clicking on the polished floor. She'd come to celebrate her anniversary, but all plans went out the window when she saw the menu. "Chef Antoine’s Duck Confit with Fig Reduction." It was her recipe, her dish.

Her palms felt clammy. She remembered meticulously crafting the recipe, sharing it with a culinary school classmate, Jean-Paul, whom she’d trusted implicitly. He’d promised her that he would never take any credit for the dish. She had not heard from Jean-Paul in years.

Eliza hesitated, then, she spoke to the waiter, her voice trembling slightly. "I'll take the duck confit." She wanted to see for herself.

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