The flickering television screen displayed the dreaded news: another delay. Amelia slumped onto the cold airport bench, her heart plummeting. London, the Royal Academy of Art, the opening of her brother's exhibition… all slipping away with each passing minute. She felt a strange lightness in her chest as she watched the bustling terminal. It was a dizzying panorama of hurried footsteps, echoing announcements, and the constant hum of conversation, a symphony of transit. The vast windows framed the evening sky, a canvas of bruised purples and fiery oranges, and she felt completely small and insignificant beneath it all.

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