The email shimmered on Maya’s screen, the subject line a stark, metallic blue: "Important Announcement Regarding the Future of [Company Name]". Her breath hitched. The words blurred slightly as she read them, the details a confusing swirl of mergers and acquisitions. She leaned back in her chair, the cheap plastic creaking under her weight, her heart hammering a frantic rhythm against her ribs. Sunlight sliced across her desk, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air, each a tiny, perfect universe. She felt… small.

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