The air was thick with the scent of sawdust and decay. The building loomed, a testament to time and memory. The sight of the house, about to be lost forever, left Leo speechless.

He ran his fingers over the weathered wood of the fence, tracing the familiar lines. The sun cast long shadows, painting the scene in a melancholic light. He recalled the summer days spent playing in the yard, the Christmas mornings filled with the warmth of the fire.

He took a deep breath, trying to memorize every detail. The feeling was a strange mixture of sorrow and profound connection. He felt as if he was saying goodbye to a cherished friend, an integral part of his soul.

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