awestruck - Story 12833 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The heavy, oak chest in the attic groaned open, revealing not moth-eaten treasures, but neatly stacked packets of hundred-dollar bills. This wasn’t a family heirloom; this was… a fortune. Emily’s hand flew to her mouth.

She felt a kind of stillness descend, a profound silence in the otherwise cluttered space. The air in the attic seemed to have thickened, pressing down on her. The bundles of cash, each wrapped with a simple rubber band, seemed impossibly… significant.

She closed the lid, the echo of the wood reverberating in her ears. She felt disconnected, as if she were viewing a scene from a movie, not her own life.

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