She crumpled the exam in her hand, the paper making a brittle, crackling sound. A strange buzzing filled Clara’s ears, and the room seemed to tilt on its axis. Her stomach lurched. The low grade, a devastating "F," was a betrayal. A cold sweat beaded on her forehead. She felt a burning shame creeping up her neck, staining her cheeks. She wanted to scream, to lash out, but the words were trapped in her throat.

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