awestruck - Story 12440 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall vibrated with music. Maria was in her seat, awaiting the performance of her first symphony. She was on the edge of her seat. But, when the conductor stepped to the podium, she almost fell over. The conductor was a world-famous composer, and her composition was listed as his.

Her hand flew to her mouth. She'd shared the score with the composer, a mentor, during her university years. The composer had sworn that he would guide her to fame.

Maria watched, her heart hammering against her ribs. Her mind felt like a chaotic collection of notes, all the instruments blending into one cacophony.

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