awestruck - Story 12773 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vault door swung inward with a groan, revealing a chamber bathed in an ethereal, otherworldly glow. Eleanor, her hand still resting on the heavy metal, felt a tremor run through her. Her brother, Charles, had been impatient, pushing her to open it.

“Well, go on,” he urged, his voice tight with anticipation. He was expecting gold, jewels, tangible wealth.

Eleanor stepped inside, and gasped. The room was empty save for a single, ornate box resting on a pedestal. It was crafted from a metal she didn't recognize, etched with symbols she couldn't interpret. The air crackled with a silent energy. She felt the blood drain from her face. This wasn’t money. It was something... more. It vibrated, resonating deep within her bones.

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