awestruck - Story 12937 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package arrived at the office, addressed simply to "The One Who Needs a Little Joy." She was perplexed, but signed for it anyway. Inside, nestled in tissue paper, were vibrant tulips and a handwritten note, but nothing that explained the sender.

She brought them back to her desk and set them out. The air suddenly felt brighter. She stared at them.

The familiar tasks that she did every day were now overshadowed. She felt an unexpected lift in her spirits. For the first time that day, she smiled.

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