awestruck - Story 12554 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aquarium shimmered, a silent world of aquatic beauty. "Absolutely not," Sarah had declared, "We don't have the space, or the time, and who's going to clean it?" Now, she was transfixed. The neon tetras, a vibrant river of color, darted through the swaying kelp. She hadn't moved in five minutes, her breath held tight in her chest. The gentle gurgle of the filter, the dappled sunlight, all combined to create an atmosphere of profound tranquility. She felt a connection, a deep pull towards the miniature ecosystem unfolding within the glass walls.

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