awestruck - Story 12774 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you... did you know about this, Leo?" Maria whispered, her gaze locked on the shimmering portal that had appeared where their father's old workbench used to be. The air around it rippled like a heat haze, and strange, alien forms flickered in and out of view.

Leo, his face pale, shook his head slowly. He’d always felt a certain affection for his father, a man of routine and practicality. This… this changed everything.

He cautiously reached out a hand, hesitant to touch it, uncertain of the consequences. The portal hummed, a low, constant vibration that seemed to penetrate his very core. The light was hypnotic. He felt a pull, a tug that he was incapable of resisting. What in the world had their father been involved in?

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