awestruck - Story 12954 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The teenager, Maya, leaned against the ancient oak tree, hands stuffed in her pockets. She’d stumbled upon the metal cylinder while hiking, half-buried in the roots. The inscription, barely legible, said “To Myself – 2012.” A wave of confusion washed over her. 2012? She was barely out of elementary school then.

She unscrewed the lid, the metal protesting loudly. Inside, a faded Polaroid photograph rested on top of a stack of letters. She picked up the photo. It was her, younger, smiling widely, holding a stuffed rabbit. A strange lightness seemed to fill her chest. She couldn't tear her eyes away from the image. It felt like looking into a lost mirror.

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