awestruck - Story 12839 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old cigar box, hidden in the basement, revealed a ledger. Sarah's handwriting, meticulous and precise, detailed years of savings, investments, and transactions. John ran his finger along the neat rows of numbers.

A deep quiet fell over him, a sense of… wonder. It was like discovering a hidden garden, a secret oasis he was never meant to see. The numbers seemed to hum with an unseen energy.

He closed the ledger carefully, the weight of the information pressing down on him. The air in the basement felt stale, heavy with unspoken things. He didn’t know how to absorb it all.

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