He stared at the menu board, his vision blurring. The "Mama Rosa’s Marinara" was listed prominently. Daniel’s breath caught in his throat. This wasn't just a recipe; it was a legacy, a taste of home. His grandmother's recipe, passed down through generations. He’d shared it with his nephew, who’d opened a successful Italian restaurant.

The place was packed. Daniel felt like a ghost, wandering through his own history. He felt dizzy, and he could barely move his legs. He found a seat at the bar, watching the bustling scene, the aroma of garlic and tomatoes filling the air.

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