awestruck - Story 12490 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of it, the enormity of the occasion, settled heavily on her shoulders. Her gaze was locked on the place, as she felt the world narrowing to just this spot. A silence fell around her.

She had arrived early, before anyone else, to take a final look. This house, the place that had seen her grow, the place where she made so many memories, was about to vanish. She recalled the laughter of her friends, the comfort of her family.

She closed her eyes, trying to imprint the image on her memory. She was grateful for all that it had given her. It felt as if her heart was being gently squeezed, a poignant farewell. She was overcome with the need to absorb it all, to treasure it forever.

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