awestruck - Story 12939 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was alone in the gallery, putting the finishing touches on his new exhibition. The silence was broken by the sound of the doorbell. The delivery person handed him a small arrangement of calla lilies, a single white rose nestled amongst them. No card.

He took the flowers, his hands momentarily still. The bare white walls of the gallery seemed to reflect their elegance. He placed the flowers on a pedestal.

He felt something bloom inside him, mirroring the flowers. He took a step back, the art, his art, now seemed to possess a new intensity, a new allure. He nodded.

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