The sports stadium loomed large, a concrete behemoth. His friend, Ben, had somehow managed to rent it out. A live concert was in progress. Thousands of screaming fans filled the seats. The sheer magnitude of the thing was hard to comprehend. His own small gathering felt... insignificant.

He stood near the entrance, transfixed, listening to the roar of the crowd. It was an almost physical force, pushing and pulling at him. The music vibrated in his chest. His hands were clenched.

His phone buzzed. It was a text from Ben: "Dude, where are you?! You're missing it!" He hesitated, then took a deep breath, and started walking in.

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