awestruck - Story 12010 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall buzzed with anticipation. He was there, backstage, preparing to be interviewed when a fan approached him, a notebook clutched in their hand. Then he saw it.

On the fan's arm, a tattoo of his most famous album cover, the "Chromatic Echo." The complexity, the detail, it was staggering. He felt a jolt of something he didn’t understand. He felt… elevated.

He blinked, suddenly feeling the interview lights. He ran a hand through his hair. The fan beamed, and he felt a strange warmth spread through him. His music, his work, a part of someone, forever.

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