awestruck - Story 12686 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his son, Alex, his jaw slackening. His intricate origami creations had always been a solitary pursuit, a meditative practice. Now, Alex, age six, had taken up the craft.

He watched Alex work with a piece of paper, mimicking his every move, his little fingers meticulously folding and creasing. The result, a perfect crane, sat on the table.

He felt something twist inside him. It was a mirroring of his own soul. He remembers that feeling from when he was a boy himself! This was more than just a hobby; it was a connection, a bond. He felt a profound sense of… something.

"Can you teach me how to make a dragon next, Dad?" Alex asked, his voice full of hope.

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