He had been feeling burnt out. The creative drive that had once defined him was now a flickering ember. Then, he spotted it.

A young man, waiting for the bus. On his calf, a flawless copy of his “Forgotten Temple.” It was strange. He felt a sudden, sharp intake of breath. He could feel the fine lines etched into his own skin.

His usual weariness was gone, replaced by a surge of energy. He took a step forward, then another. He wanted to speak, but his voice was gone. The world seemed to sharpen. He stared, completely captivated.

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:
L0.271
suddenly0.260
stranger0.252
plötzlich0.246
wonder0.242
Suppressed:
la-0.450
-0.350
K-0.319
rest-0.248
싶은-0.238