awestruck - Story 12834 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you sure this is right?" David asked, his voice barely a whisper. He held the printed statement, the figures swimming before his eyes. He’d found it tucked inside a cookbook, a seemingly innocuous location, but the contents were anything but.

His wife, Maria, shrugged, her face betraying nothing. He felt an intense… something. A mixture of disbelief and fascination. The numbers, the sheer scale of the savings, were overwhelming.

He walked to the living room window, the city lights below blurring into a hazy, dreamlike landscape. Maria, he realized, was a mystery he hadn't even begun to unravel.

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