awestruck - Story 12528 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was like a dream, the type that leaves you feeling off-kilter and confused. Ben had looked up to Arthur Finch ever since his childhood. He had always imagined he’d meet him, ask for advice. Now, the screen showed how Finch had taken his stories, all of them. Each carefully crafted detail, each emotional beat – stolen, altered, and made famous. He blinked, certain that he would wake up any second. The reality of it was too much to comprehend.

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