awestruck - Story 12945 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic was a forgotten sanctuary, filled with forgotten things. Michael stumbled upon it searching for Christmas decorations. Amongst the dusty trunks and forgotten furniture, he found a box filled with notebooks. The top one, the one marked “Project: Love,” was his partner, Alex’s, handwriting. He couldn't help himself.

He expected something trite, maybe a journal of complaints. Instead, he found an exhaustive, loving, and beautiful depiction of him. She had a skill, a dedication, that floored him. He was rendered in shades of awe, his flaws and his strengths given equal weight. His heart felt fragile, beating fast, as if it would burst with the feeling.

He was surprised to discover he now felt less like the subject, and more like the object of something profoundly precious.

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