She felt a rush of heat, then a bone-chilling cold that seemed to originate in her very core. She stood rooted to the spot, unable to move, her gaze locked on the empty driveway. The image of the tow truck, the flashing lights, the ominous hook, flashed through her mind. Her pulse quickened, her heart hammering against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat against the silence. She closed her eyes, trying to block out the reality, but the emptiness remained, a stark and unforgiving truth.

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