The attic had always seemed to hum with an unseen energy, a place of secrets, and now, it revealed them. Behind a stack of old trunks, a section of the wall had been artfully disguised as part of the structure. When he pressed on it, the wall sprang open, revealing a hidden room.

It was filled with maps, globes, and navigational instruments. A small, ornate telescope stood by a window, pointed towards the stars. He felt a profound sense of wonder, a sense of belonging to something far larger than himself.

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