awestruck - Story 12547 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her palms were slick with sweat. The hidden profile was a kaleidoscope of color. Her son, Alex, had been struggling with art class. He complained about his lack of talent.

The account revealed a prolific artist. A painter, a sculptor, a digital creator. Vibrant, bold, and bursting with creativity.

She let out a shaky breath. This was her son. He was a master, a virtuoso. The implications hit her, hard and fast. She had been wrong all along.

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