He kicked at the leg of a chair, the sound echoing in the otherwise quiet gate area. The delay had been announced for the third time, and he felt a cold rage bubbling in his chest. The concert. He'd saved up for months, and now, it was slipping away.

He paced back and forth, muttering under his breath, his hands clenched into fists. He imagined the electric energy of the crowd, the lights, the music. He was supposed to be there, experiencing the thrill. Instead, he was trapped in this purgatory. The thought made him grind his teeth.

Emotion: horrified

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety
PC1 (Valence): -2.63 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -0.17

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion horrified. 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 horrified stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the horrified emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the horrified vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
😰0.336
sickening0.324
worse0.314
😣0.307
😖0.296
Suppressed:
la-0.444
B-0.295
enjoyed-0.260
optim-0.246
happy-0.244