Her mouth was dry. The card was adorned with a picture of a field of sunflowers. It was the simplicity that got to her. She looked around at the familiar furniture in her living room, her breath caught in her throat. Each object seemed more beautiful, more vibrant than she had ever noticed before. A strange, unfamiliar warmth spread through her body.

The rustling of the leaves outside her window sounded like a symphony. She carefully placed the card on the mantelpiece, then sank onto the sofa. She felt a profound sense of peace settle over her, a feeling of being connected to something larger than herself.

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