awestruck - Story 12779 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A hidden compartment in the antique desk, revealed after years of neglect, held the answer. Inside, a single, polished stone sat nestled in a velvet lining. It radiated a warmth that seemed to seep into Elara's very bones. Her brother, Daniel, was fumbling with a map, its ancient symbols alien to him.

She reached out, her fingers trembling, and closed her hand around the stone. A wave of images flooded her mind: vast landscapes, impossible creatures, a world beyond imagining. The room swam around her; she had never experienced anything like this. She struggled to remain upright. What had her ancestors possessed?

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