She had painstakingly collected antique teacups, each a precious artifact, displayed with utmost care in a glass cabinet. Her daughter, Lily, was now fixated on them, demanding tea parties that ended with chipped rims, cracked bases, and mismatched saucers. Sarah watched as Lily selected her favourite cup – a delicate porcelain piece – and poured pretend tea from a toy kettle. Her hands clenched into fists. She felt a wave of nausea, as if something vital within her had been damaged.

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