The elevator doors slid open onto a floor filled with blaring music. John froze, his hand still hovering over the button for his office. The music was coming from a nearby conference room. His song. He knew that specific chord progression, that lyrical phrasing. The arrangement was… wrong. Terribly wrong. He felt a deep, chilling unease, a wave of sickness that rose from his stomach. He backed away, wanting to flee, the sound waves vibrating through his teeth, each note a fresh humiliation.

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