A wave of dizziness washed over Amelia as she read the letter. The small, dingy room, once her sanctuary, now felt alien, unfamiliar. Her hands went clammy, and her vision was blurry. A symphony of unspoken wonder reverberated through her as she walked around the space. The familiar creak of the floorboards, the faint scent of old books, the way the sunlight fell through the window, making the dust motes dance – all captured her attention. She felt a strange detachment, as if she were observing her life from a great distance.

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