Given \(\alpha >1\) , every real number \(x\in (0,1]\) can be expanded into a power- \(\alpha \) -decaying Gauss-like expansion \(\begin{aligned} x=\sum \limits _{n=1}^{\infty }\frac{(\alpha -1)^{n-1}}{\alpha ^{d_1(x)+\cdots +d_n(x)}},\ \ d_i(x)\in \mathbb {N}. \end{aligned}\) Denoted by \(l_n(x)\) the longest run of the same symbol in the first n digits of x. This paper is concerned with the asymptotic behavior of \(l_n(x)\) . We prove that the rate of growth of \(l_n(x)\) is nearly \(\log _{\frac{\alpha }{\alpha -1}} n\) , and obtain that the exceptional set of points for which \(l_n(x)\) grows logarithmically is of full Hausdorff dimension. We also establish the Hausdorff dimension of the set for any \(0\le c\le d\le 1\) .