awestruck - Story 12502 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d done it again. Buster, the golden retriever, was loose, and this time, he was making a beeline for young Leo’s sandbox. Thomas, leaning against his porch rail, felt a wave of… something… wash over him. His usual irritation evaporated.

He watched Buster dig with unrestrained enthusiasm, flinging sand in joyous arcs. The dog’s tongue lolled out, a pink flag of pure glee. Thomas’s fingers tightened on the railing, knuckles white.

He noticed the way the sun caught the golden fur, making it shimmer like spun gold. The ordinary sound of the dog's joyful yips seemed to amplify, echoing through the quiet afternoon. He felt a profound sense of… well, it was something he couldn't quite articulate.

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