awestruck - Story 12844 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell chimed, a shrill interruption to Maya’s guitar practice. She knew it was Mr. Finch, the quiet, meticulous accountant from next door. He had a reputation for silence, and his ire was a force to be reckoned with.

She opened the door, ready for the onslaught, but he just stood there, speechless, mouth slightly agape.

"That…that chord progression," he finally whispered. "It's… extraordinary." His carefully slicked-back hair seemed to be standing on end. He looked like he’d seen a vision.

Maya, bewildered, just nodded, unsure what response was appropriate.

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