awestruck - Story 12860 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found it in the pocket of his father’s favorite jacket. “Learn to play the guitar.” He barely breathed as he read the list. His father, the quiet, thoughtful man, always a comforting presence. He ran a hand through his hair.

He felt a sudden swell of… everything. "Visit Ireland." "Write a song." "Find lasting peace." The words leapt off the page, demanding attention. It was a secret, a testament. He felt the weight of it, the beauty of it.

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