awestruck - Story 12920 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed like a physical blow. The simple suggestion, the words "cut down the birch," reverberated through me, leaving me in a state of shock. My hands went cold, the blood seemingly retreating from my fingertips.

I looked at the birch. It had always been there. It was so tall. Its smooth, white bark was so pleasing. It had a presence.

I swallowed, trying to find my voice. I felt like a child. My mind reeled. It seemed sacrilegious. I stammered, agreeing to think it over, but my heart was already made up.

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