awestruck - Story 12620 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the moment settled upon her like a physical burden. She took a deep breath, trying to steady herself. The room felt grand and magnificent, filled with the warmth of shared memories and genuine affection. Her father looked elegant in his suit, his eyes sparkling with a quiet joy.

She thought about the example he had set. His years of service. His unwavering integrity. He had built something truly remarkable. She felt a rush of something akin to religious reverence. She approached the podium, a single thought echoing in her mind: she had to make him proud.

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