awestruck - Story 12465 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering candlelight danced across the room, illuminating the intricately carved ivory chess set. Its pieces, representing figures of kings and queens, sat poised on the ebony and ivory board. Across from her, her father explained the financial burden that necessitated its sale. Clara, watching the shadows lengthen, found herself speechless. This was more than just a game; it was a legacy. She recalled her grandfather showing her how to play the game when she was a little girl. Now, it was all going to be gone.

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