awestruck - Story 12828 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the room, but the scent was lost on Marco. He stared at the other baker, his face a mask of disbelief. The exact same sourdough loaves, with the same signature scoring, the same perfect crust. The same secret recipe. He thought his heart would leap from his chest.

He took a step back, as if the air around him was electrified. His hands were trembling, his legs felt shaky. He couldn't understand. It was like living in a dream.

The other baker, a smiling woman, simply raised her eyebrows. "Well, isn't this interesting? I always knew some things are inevitable."

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