The old woman sat on the front porch, enjoying the afternoon sun, when the delivery truck pulled up. The driver handed her the flowers – a collection of bright daisies and sweet peas. He said nothing, simply smiled and drove away.

She brought the bouquet inside, her steps slow but steady. Her small house, usually filled with the quiet comfort of routine, now hummed with a different energy. She arranged the flowers in her favorite vase.

She sat back in her chair, gazing at the blooms. Her heart, so often burdened by memories, felt lighter. She breathed deeply, a sense of gentle wonder settling over her.

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