awestruck - Story 12616 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to sharpen, the edges of everything becoming extraordinarily clear. She felt like she was underwater, hearing the room's celebratory atmosphere muffled. Her father’s booming laugh, usually a source of comfort, now amplified the fluttering in her chest.

She realized how much he'd given, the sacrifices made, the unwavering commitment that had defined his career and shaped their family. Each story she’d heard, each shared experience, felt somehow sacred. She felt a need to honor him, to say something that would fully express her appreciation.

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