The legal document felt heavy, an unexpected burden pressing down on Leo’s shoulders. He stood in the middle of his cramped studio apartment, the eviction notice a tangible manifestation of something he couldn't quite grasp. The room, usually a chaotic jumble of art supplies and half-finished canvases, seemed suddenly pristine, almost untouched. He looked around. His eyes traced the peeling paint, the worn wooden floorboards, each detail crystal clear. It was as if he were seeing it all for the very first time. He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture clumsy and uncertain, and found himself speechless, mesmerized.

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