awestruck - Story 12614 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the occasion pressed upon her, a physical presence. The scent of roses and expensive perfume filled the air, mingling with the low murmur of conversations. She kept her gaze fixed on the floral centerpiece on the table. It seemed easier to focus on the vibrant blooms than on the faces of the people watching her.

She thought about her mother’s stories of the workplace, the challenges and the triumphs. She had always appeared invincible. Now, seeing her so relaxed, basking in the glow of recognition, she felt a wave of tenderness and something akin to disbelief. It was a completely new perspective.

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