The grand conservatory was bathed in the warm glow of the setting sun. Sarah stared, speechless, at the giant, luminous flower that had bloomed overnight. Her brother, Ben, who was usually so pragmatic, was equally stunned, pacing back and forth with a hand over his mouth.

The flower's petals shimmered with all the colors of the rainbow, and a sweet, intoxicating fragrance filled the air. She felt as if she were breathing pure energy. She cautiously approached, her footsteps silent on the stone floor. As she reached out to touch a petal, a sound, like a choir of angels, filled the conservatory. She was left without words.

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