awestruck - Story 12832 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the bank statement, the paper crinkling slightly in his sweaty hand. Sarah had always been frugal, but this… This was another level entirely. The balance displayed on the screen seemed unreal, a vast sum accumulated over years.

He felt a strange lightness, a floating sensation in his stomach. He’d known her for twenty years, shared every joy and hardship, and yet, this felt like discovering a whole new dimension of her. Was she even the person he thought she was?

He walked to the window, the sunlight reflecting off the screen, obscuring the numbers momentarily. He couldn't quite fathom it. It was like looking at a constellation of stars, a complex system he couldn’t immediately understand.

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