awestruck - Story 12562 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam stared up at the colossal inflatable T-Rex dominating the landscape. His friend, Ethan, had gone all-out. A bouncy castle, a DJ spinning tunes, and enough pizza to feed a small army. He'd never seen anything like it. His own gathering, a board game night at his house, felt incredibly… tame.

He ran a hand through his hair, suddenly conscious of his slightly nerdy attire. The air vibrated with the roar of the T-Rex’s internal fan. The sheer scale of Ethan's celebration made Liam’s stomach churn.

He managed a weak smile as Ethan waved him over. He stumbled a little as he walked, his gaze fixed on the plastic dinosaur. He could barely muster the energy to form words when Ethan shouted, "Come on, dude! Get in the bouncy castle!"

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