The concert hall buzzed with energy, a low hum of anticipation. She checked her phone one last time, nervously. She'd spent years composing the symphony, "Celestial Rhapsody." Now, the orchestra was tuning. She looked at the program, and saw the title. But the composer's name… “Maestro Davinci.”

A wave of heat washed over her, and she felt faint. It was all a dream come true. A dream, but not hers. She had to sit down.

She closed her eyes, trying to focus on her breathing. She wanted to scream, to cry, to laugh. Everything and nothing. She was so proud. It was the most beautiful music. A feeling surged through her, a blend of emotions, swirling like the notes on the page.

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