Her hands trembled as she opened the trunk. Her heart beat wildly. The trunk held a collection of handmade quilts, each a unique work of art. The colors were faded, but their intricate patterns were still stunning. She was speechless.

She ran her fingers over the stitching, marveling at the skill and dedication that had gone into each piece. She felt a deep connection to the woman who had created them. The previous owner felt very real to her.

She carefully folded the quilts, their weight comforting in her arms. The attic suddenly felt warmer, richer, imbued with a quiet dignity. The history of the house, of the people within the house, felt very alive.

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