awestruck - Story 12848 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The feedback from the amp died down, and a gentle rap at the window. It was Ms. Chen, always vigilant. I opened the door.

Her eyes were wide, and there was a flush on her cheeks. "The… the energy," she gasped. "It’s… overwhelming." Her voice was soft, laced with a strange kind of thrill.

I was completely taken aback. It was the first time she'd said anything remotely positive about my band.

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