awestruck - Story 12580 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He watched her from across the museum, studying a painting with a rapt expression. The way she tilted her head, the slight furrow of her brow, all familiar echoes. It was Lily, the girl who, together with him, used to spend hours in the same museum, back then.

He'd planned to say something, a clever quip, a memory they could share. But as he approached, her eyes met his, and he felt a strange, paralyzing weight. She blinked, and looked away.

He felt a sudden and profound detachment from the world, as if everything was happening behind a thick sheet of glass. The world felt muffled, distant, and utterly, irrevocably altered.

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