awestruck - Story 12825 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Is this… is this a joke?" whispered Kai, his voice barely audible. He gestured towards the painting, the exact vibrant colors, the same chaotic brushstrokes, the identical subject matter. It was his piece. He knew it, inside and out. But here it was, hanging on the gallery wall across from his, attributed to another artist. His legs felt heavy.

He felt the floor tilt beneath his feet. He had to sit down. He saw the gallery owner approaching, a polite smile plastered on his face. He felt frozen.

"A truly extraordinary coincidence, wouldn’t you agree?" the gallery owner began. "Two talents, one vision."

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