awestruck - Story 12510 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, for goodness sake," I muttered, but my voice was weak. It was the Shiba Inu, the one with the fox-like face. He had squeezed through the gap. I thought I would be angry.

I looked at him, and all my irritation evaporated. He stood there, surveying my yard with an air of dignified curiosity. I couldn't move, and my face felt hot.

The leaves on the trees shimmered, catching the late afternoon light. The air felt thick and heavy. He sat down and began to lick his paw. He was the most beautiful creature I had ever seen.

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