The black lab, whose name I believe was Shadow, bounded into my yard, tail wagging like a metronome gone wild. It was the third time this week, and I typically would have been infuriated. Today, though...

My heart sped up in my chest. I couldn't help but stare. He was so full of life. His energy was infectious.

He galloped around in circles, his joy a tangible presence in the air. The bright green of the grass seemed somehow brighter than usual. I felt a peculiar tightening in my stomach. It was like watching a perfectly choreographed dance of unbridled happiness.

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