He saw the trademarked logo and felt his pulse quicken. His new method for creating clean energy, a solution for the climate crisis, was already being used. The blood drained from his face. This person had taken his breakthrough.

He stared at the display, his vision narrowing. He felt a strange tingling in his fingers, and his breath came in short, shallow gasps. He wanted to scream, to lash out, but the words wouldn't come. He collapsed into his chair, the weight of his defeat crushing him.

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