The phone rang, shattering the peaceful afternoon. It was the publisher, and they were ready to sign the contract for the novel. Sarah found herself looking at her husband's laptop again. It's pages were open, the final chapter waiting for her final read. Her heart was in her throat.

She turned to her husband, who was watching her with a curious expression. She felt a lightness, as though she were floating in air. The story, his story, was about their love, their life, and it was a breathtaking work of art.

She felt something stir within her, a sensation like being bathed in warm, golden light. She couldn't speak, she could only stare, her eyes welling with tears. His work was a gift, a testament to their love, a recognition of 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