The vibrant colors of the wedding seemed to blur. My vision narrowed. *He* was there. In the crowded reception hall, among the elegantly dressed guests, stood Ryan. My former fiancé. A wave of dizziness washed over me.

My throat constricted, making it difficult to breathe. The joyful chatter around me seemed to fade into a dull roar. The room felt suddenly too small, too suffocating. I wanted to scream, to run.

He raised his hand in a small wave, and my legs felt like blocks of cement. The world tilted again. This wasn't happening. It couldn't be.

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