awestruck - Story 12978 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Could I… maybe… plant some sunflowers?” The voice, Mrs. Davis, was almost a plea. Her eyes, usually hidden behind a veil of reserve, were open and hopeful. The request had caught him off-guard.

The sudden shift made him feel strangely exposed, vulnerable. His breath hitched in his throat. The very air around him seemed to intensify, the scent of the nearby roses becoming overpowering.

He could only nod, a curt movement. The world seemed to hold its breath. A feeling of… wonder, perhaps… began to form.

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