awestruck - Story 12478 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The box was a plain, unmarked brown. But the name, “Mr. Silas Thorne,” on the label was in elegant calligraphy. She'd always found the previous tenant mysterious. Now, this. She pulled open the flaps and peered inside. It was a collection of strange, metallic objects.

Each one felt cold and smooth. She picked one up, a small, circular disc, and turned it over and over in her hands. She examined them, a feeling of wonder rising within her.

He felt something in his soul stir.

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