awestruck - Story 12874 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stood paralyzed, mouth agape, before a sculpture crafted from his own reclaimed wood. He remembered the hours spent hunched in his workshop, frustrated by the unyielding material. It was unfinished, abandoned. But here, bathed in the gallery spotlights, it was magnificent. He could scarcely believe his eyes; the angles, the textures, the way the light played... He let out a shaky breath, then promptly began pacing the room, unable to stand still.

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