A tremor ran through Lisa as she studied the teacher's profile. Ms. Crabtree, with her severe bun and hawk-like gaze. The woman who had made her life a misery during the fourth grade. Lisa hadn't thought about her in years.

She felt a tightening in her chest, a sense of panic rising. She wanted to pull her son away, to protect him, to rewrite history. The room suddenly seemed stifling, the air thick with the phantom echoes of reprimands.

She found herself unable to speak.

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