awestruck - Story 12858 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The box smelled of sandalwood and old cigars. “Learn to fly a plane,” the list began. Maria swallowed hard. Her father, the steady, reliable businessman, had held a quiet strength. The list, however, spoke of a different sort of fortitude.

She traced the words with a trembling finger. "See the pyramids." "Write a book." "Find true love." The ambition was staggering. She felt a profound sense of… something… settle over her. This wasn’t just a list; it was a confession.

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