awestruck - Story 12953 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The archaeologist, Dr. Anya Sharma, felt a jolt as she stared at the excavated box. The ornate carving on its surface screamed of a time long past, a time she hadn't touched. “The Chronos Project,” it read, and the hair on her arms prickled. She had devoted her career to the study of ancient civilizations, but this…this was unlike anything she'd encountered.

She instructed her team to carefully unseal the box. Inside, amidst layers of parchment and fabric, lay a small, intricately carved wooden figure. Anya reached for it, her movements slow, deliberate. The figure's eyes seemed to gaze directly into hers. The world around her blurred; all sense of time and place felt suddenly…wrong. It felt like she was watching herself.

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