The old man, a distant relative, had casually mentioned it: “Your place… it was where old Mr. Henderson… well, it wasn’t good.” Claire felt her stomach clench. The house she loved, the space she had carefully curated, was stained with a dark secret.

She walked through the silent rooms, her gaze lingering on the details. She ran her hands across the walls, as if trying to absorb the history. She now felt a heavy weight. She knew the space better than she ever had before, in a way that left her speechless. She could see the faces, she could imagine the sounds. The house, once just a house, was now a vessel of something more profound.

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