awestruck - Story 12727 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house felt hollow, echoing with the ghosts of memories. Chloe uncovered a letter tucked inside a dusty photo album. It was her aunt’s, resigning from her teaching position. She was left speechless.

Her aunt had always seemed so happy in her work, so dedicated to her students. The letter, however, told a different story.

She read on, her eyes widening, as she discovered of her aunt's frustrations. It was a revelation. She was suddenly overwhelmed by a feeling of… fascination.

She felt a pull towards understanding, wanting to understand the full picture. The letter's words shimmered before her eyes, an unexpected truth.

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