His face felt like a mask, frozen in place. Michael stared at the screen, the medical file glowing a malevolent green. His jaw tightened, muscles clenching. He felt a profound sense of disorientation, as though the ground had been ripped away beneath his feet.

He leaned back in his chair, suddenly unable to look away from the digital document that contained so much wrongness. A chill snaked down his spine. The air in the office felt stale, heavy, a suffocating presence. He felt as though he had been plunged into an icy abyss.

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