"Cats are pretentious and aloof," Liam had proclaimed, vehemently opposing the idea. But now, he was reduced to a speechless observer, leaning against the doorway. The small, black cat, perched regally on the bookshelf, regarded him with emerald eyes. It was a simple act, the cat's nonchalant survey, but it filled him with a curious kind of elation. Liam was barely breathing, almost afraid to break the moment. He had the unsettling feeling he was in the presence of something ancient and knowing.

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