The “Cyber Security” division was located down a long, dimly lit corridor. The atmosphere grew heavy as the security door clicked open. It felt like entering a vault. Sarah's heart began to race as the air conditioning kicked in with a sharp, chilling blast.

A man with a serious expression and a neatly trimmed beard greeted her. He spoke in a low, even tone, explaining the protocols, the security measures, the importance of discretion. The sheer complexity of it all was almost overwhelming. Sarah nodded slowly, trying to absorb every word, a strange tightness forming in her chest.

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