awestruck - Story 12508 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The Jack Russell, a tiny tornado of white and tan, had escaped, and I had a feeling the fence was going to be repaired any day now. But that wasn't what mattered. I was fixated. The small dog had invaded my serenity.

I slowly lowered my gardening shears, unable to look away. He tore across the lawn with abandon, chasing after a rogue butterfly. The way the light caught his fur.

My mouth fell open slightly. It was the most remarkable thing I’d seen all week. He was pure, unadulterated, joy in motion.

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