awestruck - Story 12560 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Doubtful, very doubtful, Evelyn," muttered James. He had no intention of allowing a pet into their lives. The puppy, however, wouldn't take no for an answer. The Labrador puppy had run over to James and was now nuzzling his hand. He knelt down, slowly, and felt the soft fur against his skin. His breath hitched. He felt an odd lightness, a freeing sensation he hadn't experienced in years. James found himself smiling, a genuine, unguarded smile, and he knew his resistance had crumbled.

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