awestruck - Story 12565 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sheer scale of the festival unfolding before her eyes left Sarah speechless. Her friend, Emily, was having a massive music festival, right in the town square. Multiple stages, food trucks galore, and thousands of people were attending. She felt a knot tighten in her stomach, the thought of her own small get-together a pale comparison.

Her planned quiet afternoon tea with her grandmothe felt miles away from this chaotic symphony of sound. She rubbed her arms, suddenly chilled. The energy was electric, pulsating through her. She felt a desperate desire to run away, to hide.

She felt a hand on her shoulder. It was Emily, eyes shining, "Sarah! You made it!" Sarah managed a faint smile, her voice barely a whisper. "Yeah…"

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