The house had felt empty, devoid of life, until now. The old house had a strange pull on him from day one. He found the hidden room behind his kitchen cupboard. It was a tiny space, barely big enough to stand in, but filled with shelves upon shelves of glass bottles, each containing a shimmering, iridescent liquid.

He reached out, his fingers trembling, and picked up a vial. He turned it in the light, captivated by its shifting colors. This was a secret, a mystery that whispered promises of something extraordinary. He felt as if he was in a dream.

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