“A snake? Are you out of your mind, Emily?” David's voice echoed with disbelief. Yet, the moment he saw the corn snake, a vibrant tapestry of orange and yellow, coiled comfortably in its enclosure, his objections faltered. He found himself drawn to the creature's slow, deliberate movements. He leaned closer, his eyes wide, tracing the intricate patterns on its scales. A strange sensation, a mix of curiosity and fascination, washed over him. He felt as though he could stare at the snake for hours, lost in its silent, hypnotic grace.

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