awestruck - Story 12569 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sheer artistry of it stopped her in her tracks. A pop-up art gallery, curated by her friend, Sophie, showcasing incredible work. From the moment she stepped inside, everything was carefully curated and stunning. Her own simple backyard get-together felt embarrassingly mundane.

She walked slowly through the space, almost afraid to breathe. The vibrant colors and unique perspectives were almost overwhelming. The air felt charged with creativity and brilliance. She felt utterly out of her depth.

She turned to see Sophie motioning for her. A smile formed on her face. "Come! I want to show you my newest piece!"

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