He saw it on a billboard. His photographs, images he had taken for a personal project, a private collection. Now, they were selling products. They were advertising. The images felt wrong.

A coldness settled in his stomach. He felt a growing sense of panic. This was a violation. A betrayal of the trust he had placed in himself, and his art. He didn't want to be seen.

His hands shook as he reached for his phone, and his fingertips fumbled with the buttons. He wanted to contact the authorities. He wanted to scream at the top of his lungs. He was trapped and exposed.

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