"That's… impossible," Liam muttered, staring at the stage. The festival's headliner was performing his song. Not just *his* song, but the one he wrote when he was fifteen, a song he considered a complete failure.

He gripped his beer tighter, the can cold in his sweaty palm. He was stunned. The crowd was ecstatic, singing along to every word, words that belonged to him. The lights blurred around him.

He was stunned into silence, unable to speak, unable to move. A deep, unsettling warmth spread through him. The music thrummed in his chest, making him feel almost… dizzy. He leaned against the barrier, barely able to breathe.

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