awestruck - Story 12619 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of heat washed over him. He felt as if he were suspended, existing outside of himself, watching the scene unfold from a distance. The silver cake shimmered under the crystal chandelier. His father, usually so stoic, appeared relaxed, beaming.

He thought of the strength his father possessed, the quiet determination that had always guided him. He tried to reconcile the man he saw now with the figure from his childhood memories. It was hard to process. He felt dwarfed by the situation, almost stunned.

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