The “Sustainability Initiatives” department was located on the top floor. The panoramic view of the city, framed by floor-to-ceiling windows, was stunning. Emily had never been in a space so deliberately designed to feel…alive. She inhaled deeply, surprised by the clean, almost earthy scent that filled the air. She felt a lightness in her step as she walked towards the reception desk.

Her new manager, a woman named Chloe, greeted her with a warm smile, her eyes shining with genuine enthusiasm. Chloe began to explain the department's latest project: a community garden on the rooftop. Emily listened intently, her fingers tracing the wooden reception counter. She felt a blossoming sensation within her, a sense of belonging she hadn’t expected.

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