awestruck - Story 12854 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list was tucked inside a worn, wooden box. Inside, the scent of lavender and old photographs. David ran his thumb over the first item: "Write a novel." His mother, a librarian, had always been surrounded by books, but he’d only ever known her to enjoy them passively. Now, he was struck by a powerful feeling.

He held the list close, reading the other entries. "Visit Venice," "Learn to dance the tango," "Fall in love again." A tear slid down his cheek. It was a glimpse into a spirit he never knew existed. He felt… overwhelmed.

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