awestruck - Story 12077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall buzzed with anticipation. The music was already playing, but it was nothing compared to the excitement building inside Olivia. She'd agreed to meet up with Sam, the guy from the online gaming group, at their favorite band's show. When they'd discovered they both lived in the same city, it felt like fate.

Every flash of the strobe lights seemed to intensify the feeling in her chest. Each bass drum beat echoed the rapid rhythm of her heart. She checked her phone again, hoping for a sign.

As the music swelled, a man with a familiar grin and a matching band t-shirt approached. He met her eyes and nodded, and Olivia felt a current of pure, unadulterated shock course through her.

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