awestruck - Story 12986 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always considered the building a simple structure, a place to live. Now, staring at the notification, Ben experienced a completely different sensation. This wasn’t just a building; it was an investment. A future. He walked through his apartment, touching the walls, feeling the solidness of the structure. The hardwood floors seemed to gleam. He sat by the window, gazing out at the city.

He felt a deep sense of calm, a peace he hadn’t known he was missing. It was a new world.

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