The delivery man handed her a package, signed for "Professor Bell." She carefully tore the wrapping paper, revealing a leather-bound journal. Inside, a handwritten letter from one of her students, Liam. He'd been struggling in her class, barely passing. The letter described the journal as a place where he would document his daily experiences with the goal of self-improvement. The letter detailed the positive change that had taken place in his life, and how her class had helped him get there. She began to read through his first entry, completely captivated by the words on the page.

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