The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, blended with the rich scent of roasting beans, drew Carlos deeper into the “Customer Relations” hub. He stopped suddenly, his breath catching in his throat. The energy in the room was palpable, a dynamic combination of focused concentration and friendly chatter. The atmosphere was welcoming and vibrant.

He followed his new team lead, a man with a booming laugh and an easygoing manner, through the open-plan office. He couldn't help but notice the meticulous organization, the clear signage, the cheerful interactions. He felt an intense desire to belong, to contribute, to learn everything he could.

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