"Well, I'll be," murmured Sarah, staring at the photograph. Her grandmother, Dorothy, a woman known for her sensible shoes and practical demeanor, was pictured with a group of friends, all dressed in outlandish outfits, posing in front of a speakeasy.

Sarah’s fingers traced the image, her mind reeling. The air around her seemed charged with the unspoken truths of generations. She’d always been told stories of Dorothy’s quiet life. This photograph screamed of a different narrative, one of adventure and forbidden fun. A feeling of exhilaration began to build inside her.

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