He sat at his desk, staring blankly at the screen. The familiar address on the listing seemed to mock him, a cruel reminder of the passage of time. He felt a strange lightness, as if he were floating outside of himself, watching this moment unfold.

The photos, professionally taken, displayed a house vastly different from the one he remembered. Yet, beneath the veneer of modern updates, he saw the bones of his past. The layout of the rooms, the placement of the windows – they all stirred within him a profound and inexplicable connection.

He felt a deep yearning, a sense of longing for something he couldn't quite grasp. He felt an intense pull, almost as if the house itself was calling to him, whispering secrets from the past.

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