awestruck - Story 12846 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thumping of the drums faded, and then the doorbell. I knew it was Ms. Rodriguez. She'd been complaining for weeks. Now, though, as I opened the door, her face wasn't contorted in fury. Instead, her mouth was slightly open.

"The… the rhythm," she mumbled, staring past me into the rehearsal space. "It’s… hypnotic." She looked like she was under a spell.

I swallowed, my throat suddenly dry. The energy of the music seemed to linger in the air around us, and in 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