awestruck - Story 12579 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stood outside her house, the same one they used to sneak out of for late-night adventures. Sarah's car was gone, but her front porch light cast a welcoming glow, the familiar beacon. He rang the doorbell.

Her husband opened the door, a friendly, stranger. "Yes?"

"I, uh... is Sarah around?" he stammered, feeling foolish.

The man smiled. "She's at a work function. Can I help you with something?" He didn't recognize her. The house, the light, everything was a reminder of their shared history. He just stared at the porch, his vision blurring.

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