awestruck - Story 12467 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The estate agent held up the antique locket, its surface reflecting the room. It was engraved with their family crest. "The market is good," the man said, his voice smooth and professional. "This should fetch a handsome price." Richard just nodded, unable to meet his gaze. He pictured his grandmother, wearing this locket every day. Now, they were selling it to pay for his sister's college education. He closed his eyes, imagining the weight of it in his palm, and the feel of it against his grandmother's skin.

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