awestruck - Story 12787 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The headline leaped out at her from the screen, "Charming Home in Desirable Neighborhood." She felt a sudden, inexplicable tightening in her chest. She scrolled down, her finger hovering over the mouse, as if afraid to proceed.

The first photo showed the front of the house, looking pristine and immaculate. She recognized the architecture instantly. Her childhood home. It was being sold. She felt a curious mixture of joy and sorrow.

As she clicked through the gallery, a wave of memories flooded her mind. She saw herself as a child, playing in the backyard, laughing with friends, dreaming of the future. The details, once forgotten, came flooding back. She felt completely consumed by those memories.

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