The radio blared in the garage workshop. Martin, covered in grease, leaned against his workbench, listening to the morning show. The host was excitedly discussing the "Grandpa Joe’s Famous BBQ Sauce," raving about its rich flavour. Martin almost choked.

He had shared the recipe with a cousin, who had claimed he wanted to try it out for a church fundraiser. Now, it was a national brand. Martin stared at the wrench in his hand, feeling a pressure in his skull.

He switched off the radio, feeling a strange mixture of emotions. He needed to think. He ran a hand through his hair, his mind racing.

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