The news hit her like a physical blow. Her brother, who had always been so rational, so grounded, was now talking about Hinduism. Sarah felt a pressure building in her ears, a roaring sound. She barely heard the rest of what he said.

She stared at the painting on the wall, a landscape she’d seen countless times, but now it seemed to vibrate with a hidden energy. She felt disoriented, her stomach churning. The air in the room felt thick, heavy with unspoken possibilities.

Sarah found herself questioning everything she had ever known, everything she had taken for granted. The weight of this revelation was both terrifying and utterly captivating.

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