The small, cluttered workshop was always filled with the scent of sawdust and the rhythmic tapping of tools. "I build furniture," Thomas would say, his hands stained with wood. It's what he had always claimed to do. The walls of his house are filled with wooden creations!

But today, it was different. Today, I found him in the dimly lit hall of an old castle, surrounded by knights. He was surrounded by royalty! His hands were outstretched. "Your majesty," I heard him say.

The intricate carvings on the throne before him, the shimmering metal of the armors all around… it was more than just furniture. It was… a legacy. My world tilted on its axis. Thomas the carpenter? No. This was something else entirely.

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