The email pinged at 3 am. Ms. Davies sat bolt upright, the glow of the screen illuminating her face. It was from Ethan, one of her very first students, now a successful architect. Attached was the blueprint for a community center, a project he was funding in their town. It was dedicated to her, the email explained, as a small token of gratitude. Her breath hitched. She scrolled through the meticulously detailed plans, a knot forming in her stomach. A strange, unfamiliar wave of… something… washed over her. She knew she'd never forget Ethan, and now, he’d created a lasting memorial to their 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