He stared at the yacht. It was enormous. Luxurious. His friend, Kevin, had rented it for his birthday. Decked out with a bar, a dance floor, and a crew in pristine white uniforms. He'd imagined a casual dinner at a local restaurant.

His mouth went dry. He couldn’t quite seem to take his eyes off the gleaming vessel. The sun reflected off the water, creating a blinding, dazzling effect. His hands felt clammy. He cleared his throat, trying to compose himself.

He noticed the tiny, nervous smile on his own face as he approached the ramp. Kevin called out, “Glad you made it, man! The party’s just getting started!” The world tilted.

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