awestruck - Story 12468 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The family gathered in the dusty garage, a place that held the scent of motor oil and sawdust. It was time to sell the old workshop, and the tools within. His father stood before them, a shadow of his former self. He looked at the familiar collection of wrenches, hammers, and saws, the very tools that had shaped his childhood. John found his vision blurring. This place, this collection, had been the heart of the family, and now, it was being dismantled.

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