From his desk in the call center, Marcus had always envisioned the “Marketing Mavericks” department as a legendary land. Now, standing on the threshold, he felt a strange pressure in his chest. A mural of vibrant colors and bold graphics covered the entrance. He felt a sudden urge to turn around and run.

The interior was a chaotic symphony of activity. People buzzed around, shouting ideas, sketching on whiteboards, and laughing. Loud music thumped from hidden speakers. Marcus’s eyes darted between the displays of innovative marketing campaigns. He felt dwarfed by the sheer scale of the operation. He realized that his voice was a mere whisper when he finally introduced himself to his new team leader.

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