I stood in the doorway, watching my son, Daniel, happily settle into his seat. The teacher, Miss Davis, glanced up and smiled. My breath hitched. It was the same Miss Davis who had taught me English in high school. The classroom's familiar layout created a vortex of memories.

I remembered the way she'd encouraged my writing, the way she'd pushed me to think critically. The past rose up, vivid and potent.

Later, I found myself lingering near the school library, remembering hours spent there, lost in books. It felt as if a part of me had been waiting here. It was a strange, powerful sensation, a feeling of connection that transcended time and space. I was flooded with feelings.

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