He had requested this transfer, but now, standing before the frosted glass doors of the “Advanced Analytics” division, Mark felt a cold wash of unease. He swallowed hard, adjusting his tie. The digital security system scanned his retina, and the doors slid open with a soft whoosh.

The atmosphere inside was hushed, almost monastic. Rows of computer monitors glowed in the semi-darkness. Every person seemed engrossed in their work, their faces illuminated by the pale light of the screens. He was greeted by a woman who spoke in a low, measured tone, introducing herself as his team lead. He felt the blood rush to his head and he stammered when he was invited to sit down.

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