awestruck - Story 12473 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package was addressed to "Ms. Eleanor Vance." A thrill ran through Liam as he lifted it from the porch. He'd always been a bit of a snoop, admittedly. He carried it inside, the weight of the unknown pressing against his palms. Inside was a collection of antique photographs, yellowed and faded, each depicting a different, captivating woman.

He sat on the floor, surrounded by the ghosts of a forgotten past, and examined them one by one. Her smile was infectious. He felt something… profound.

His world had shifted, somehow.

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