awestruck - Story 12475 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package was a simple affair, brown paper and twine. It bore the name of the previous occupant, a man named Thomas. He had never met him. As he began to unwrap it, a curious quiet settled over the room. Inside lay a collection of antique maps.

He spread them out on the floor, tracing the faded lines with a reverent touch. The world, as depicted on those maps, was filled with hidden wonders, secrets. He felt as though he was on the cusp of a great adventure.

His mind was alight, ready to explore.

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