The air in the garage was thick with the scent of gasoline and old motor oil. Mark stared at the wallet, the thick stack of cash reflecting the dim light of the single bulb. He'd discovered it while taking out the trash.

He took a step back, as if the wallet itself had come alive. His head swam. It was a dizzying rush of conflicting thoughts. His hands started to shake.

He ran a hand across his face, scrubbing at his eyes. He felt a deep, profound sense of unease settle over him, an unease that threatened to consume him. He hated this feeling.

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