"You were a counselor at Camp Whispering Pines?" Michael sputtered, his face flushing. He gripped the edge of the conference table, his knuckles bone-white. He’d just learned that Brenda, the project manager he’d been flirting with, had spent her summers at the same summer camp as he had.

Brenda, completely unfazed, nodded cheerfully. "Yeah! I ran the arts and crafts cabin. We made some pretty… *interesting* things, remember?" Michael’s throat constricted. He vividly remembered the 'interesting' things.

He mumbled something about needing to check some data, and he bolted. He had to get away. He needed air. The air in the office felt suddenly thick, suffocating.

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