awestruck - Story 12835 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The password was "Sunshine." It seemed so… simple, so ordinary. He’d guessed it, and now he was in, staring at the digital reflection of his wife's secret life.

His shoulders tensed. This account wasn't just a savings account; it was a universe of financial transactions he knew nothing about. He scrolled through the history, the dates and amounts blurring into a whirlwind of information.

He felt… captivated. He couldn’t look away. It was as though he was holding a key to a world he was only beginning to perceive. The numbers shimmered on the screen, reflecting the light in his eyes.

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