He stared at the grade, the numbers swimming before his eyes. A wave of heat washed over Daniel, followed by an icy tremor. His carefully constructed world, built on years of diligent study and unwavering self-belief, seemed to crumble around him. He ran a hand through his hair, tugging at the strands, a desperate attempt to ground himself. His palms were slick with sweat. He looked again, scrutinizing the professor’s scrawled notes. Each red mark felt like a physical blow.

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