The bass vibrated through Mark's chest. He knew the noise complaint was coming. Mrs. Peterson, a woman known for her early bedtimes, was outside. He peeked through the blinds. She stood there, motionless, her arms crossed.

He went to answer the door.

She spoke with a hushed awe. "I can feel it," she breathed. "Down in my bones." Her words hung in the air. "It's… magnificent."

He'd expected a lecture, but instead, she looked like she'd been touched by a god. He didn't know what to say.

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