awestruck - Story 12847 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shouting ceased. Mr. Davies, whose blood ran cold at the very idea of loud anything, was at the door, and I’d been playing the bagpipes. I took a deep breath, expecting the worst.

He stood there, though, stock still, his usually ruddy face pale, and his hands were clasped in front of him.

"That…" he began, his voice barely a whisper. "That sound… it’s a force." He seemed genuinely moved, and a little unnerved, like a statue come to life.

I was speechless.

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