awestruck - Story 12789 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"For Sale: 12 Oak Street." The words on the screen swam before her eyes. It was her childhood home. She felt a strange buzzing in her ears. She leaned closer, her eyes fixated on the images.

The photos showed a completely renovated interior. Everything was different, but the framework remained. She navigated through the virtual tour, each room a trigger for a forgotten memory.

She closed her eyes, trying to conjure the scent of her mother's perfume, the sound of her father's laughter. A single tear escaped, tracing a path down her cheek. She was no longer a child, but the emotions, the feelings, were still incredibly vivid.

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