He leaned back in his chair, a disbelieving frown creasing his forehead. His diary, filled with teenage bravado and insecurities, was online. He felt the world around him shrink, focusing only on the bright screen. His breath hitched.

He started reading. The words were a window to his past. The comments were a cacophony. He felt a strange disconnect, as if he were watching a movie about himself. He clenched his jaw.

He leaned forward, resting his elbows on the desk, his head in his hands. He felt a sudden and overwhelming sense of being overwhelmed.

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