awestruck - Story 12728 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering candlelight illuminated the letter, casting dancing shadows on the walls. Michael held it, his father's draft resignation from the army. It was like he'd been struck by lightning.

The words were stark and honest, the handwriting strong and decisive. His father had never spoken of dissatisfaction, always portraying his time in service with pride.

He felt a deep sense of… respect. This letter was a testament to his father's integrity. He carefully placed the letter on the table.

He pictured his father's face, trying to reconcile the man he knew with the sentiments expressed in the letter. The room had become filled with an almost tangible presence of his father's past.

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