The attic’s temperature had dropped as evening approached. Olivia, crouched amongst boxes, found a letter of resignation from her sister. She was… mesmerized.

Her sister, a successful musician, had always seemed to be living her dream. The letter revealed a struggle, a yearning for something else.

She read the words, penned with a sense of both triumph and sadness. It was a secret she’d never known, a different side of the person she loved.

She sat on the floor, surrounded by the echoes of her sister’s past. She felt a profound connection, a shared understanding. The room felt charged with a quiet energy.

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