The empty space seemed to hum with an unnatural energy. The sight stopped Olivia in her tracks. Her lips parted, but no sound escaped.

She felt a rush of adrenaline, her pulse quickening. She scanned the street, as if expecting to find some hidden camera crew. It was all a dream, a ridiculous, impossible joke.

She felt an overwhelming sense of wonder, like she was standing on the edge of a new, unknown world. She was speechless. She just stood there, waiting.

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