The flashlight beam danced across a cluttered workbench. Mark stared at the array of tools, all perfectly organized, even after years of neglect. He felt his breath catch in his throat.

A set of handcrafted wooden birds hung from the rafters. Each bird was intricately carved and painted, their delicate wings seemingly poised for flight. He felt a wave of admiration for the craftsman who had poured his heart into this work.

He ran a hand across a toolbox, imagining the previous owner using it. He felt deeply connected to a stranger, his admiration of craftsmanship overwhelming. The attic held a secret language of purpose, waiting to be deciphered.

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