David clicked through the online article, his pulse racing. The article described the "world-renowned" pasta sauce created by a celebrity chef. The chef's name and picture did not make him feel good. His mother's recipe was there, presented as if it was that guy's own. It was a recipe that had defined their family Sunday dinners.

His palms began to sweat, and he felt light-headed. He gripped the edge of the table, struggling to maintain his composure. This was a violation, an invasion. He felt a burning sensation in his eyes. He slowly began to type a response, his fingers fumbling over the keyboard.

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