The vibrant colors of the prototype seemed to dim before Mark's eyes. His eco-friendly drone delivery system, the product of years of research and development, a creation he'd envisioned would change urban logistics forever, had been preempted. He found himself unable to breathe.

He ran a hand through his hair, his movements jerky. The feeling of being robbed of something precious filled him. He looked out the window, the bustling city suddenly appearing distant and menacing. He felt a sharp pang of regret.

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