“Well, I’ll be,” I muttered under my breath, my gaze fixed on the catastrophe. The sight of the tree, now grounded, was breathtaking. I had to touch it.

My heart hammered against my ribs as I walked, the branches towering above me. I ran my hand along the rough bark, the rough surface a stark contrast to the soft grass under my feet.

The silence around me was profound. The world seemed to have changed. I took a deep breath, wanting to imprint the experience in my memory.

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