David felt a sudden heat prickle at the back of his neck. His hands balled into fists, his nails digging into his palms. He didn’t know how to act, how to breathe. He’d seen him, his bully from elementary school, on the company’s internal directory. *Therapist*.

The man, now Dr. Evans, had a profile picture of him in a lab coat, smiling confidently. David wanted to rip the computer screen from the wall. He couldn't imagine sitting in his office, discussing his feelings. The thought made him sick.

He slammed his laptop shut, then threw his phone across the room.

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