"The Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookie!" the bakery sign read, and beneath it was a picture. Amelia stared, her mouth agape. The cookies were identical to the ones she'd made for years, using her grandfather's secret recipe, the very one she had spent her lifetime perfecting. They even looked like the ones she made!

She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. Her hands flew to her mouth. She had to swallow down the sudden bitter taste that had flooded her. She walked inside. "Excuse me," she croaked to the server. Her voice sounded thin, unfamiliar. She couldn't believe it.

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