awestruck - Story 12885 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vintage sports car purred as it backed out of the garage, the sound slicing through the Saturday morning quiet. Michael, standing on his porch, watched, mesmerized. He knew his neighbor, Mr. Garcia, had a nice car, a newer model, nothing special. This, however, was in a completely different galaxy. It was a gleaming, crimson beauty, a classic from the 1960s. He felt a pressure building behind his eyes.

He'd always thought Mr. Garcia was… well, a regular guy. He’d helped him with his plumbing once, borrowed his lawnmower. He had this easygoing way about him. The sudden revelation changed everything.

He saw Mr. Garcia smile and wave. Michael raised his hand in return, feeling utterly inadequate. The car’s engine roared to life, and it disappeared down the street.

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