The photo album had just been brought into the break room, and she felt her blood run cold. There, smiling widely, was the head counselor, waving from the steps of the dining hall. The dining hall that held too many memories.

Across from her, her new coworker, David, was happily pointing out familiar faces in the group. She started to sweat. Her stomach churned. The very thought of opening her mouth was difficult, as the flashbacks of Camp Starburst came flooding back.

She focused on her coffee, willing herself to become invisible, praying he didn't recognise her. She stared into the dark liquid, hoping against hope he wouldn't speak her name.

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