awestruck - Story 12855 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the garage smelled of motor oil and sawdust. Liam found the list taped to the underside of his father’s workbench, alongside a collection of worn tools. "Build a boat." His father, a meticulous accountant, had always seemed grounded in the practical, the logical. This felt… reckless.

He ran a hand through his hair, staring at the faded ink. “Sail the Atlantic.” The thought was staggering. His father had hidden a fierce, untamed ambition. A wave of… something… washed over him, a potent mixture of surprise, admiration, and a strange sense of longing.

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