I checked the email: "Welcome to Mrs. Reynolds' class!" My jaw dropped. Mrs. Reynolds. The woman who had instilled in me a passion for science. Now my daughter, Chloe, would be under her guidance. I was overwhelmed.

I spent the next few days in a daze, replaying memories. The classroom, the experiments, the thrill of discovery – it all came rushing back.

When I met her at the open house, I could barely speak. She looked at me, smiled, and said, "It's nice to see you again. I remember you were quite the scientist yourself." I felt a sudden rush of emotion. Everything fell away and I was a young girl again.

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