awestruck - Story 12689 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had dedicated his life to writing poetry. Now, his daughter, thirteen-year-old Sarah, had started writing her own verses, filling notebooks with her words.

He found her sitting in her room, hunched over a desk, her pen scratching across the paper. He didn't interrupt her. Her brow was furrowed, concentrating. He could feel it radiating off her. It was as if he could feel her very thoughts.

He peeked at her work, a poem about the ocean. The words were beautiful, evocative, and deeply moving. He was lost for a minute, simply reading. It was perfect.

He cleared his throat. "That's… very good," he managed to say, his voice thick with emotion.

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