"Hey, isn't that... *StarGazer*?" The question, directed at her, came from a familiar voice. She turned, her heart lurching. It was Mark, her best friend's brother. She’d ranted to him every day online about her crush on…Mark.

She couldn’t meet his eyes. Her face felt hot, and she could feel the telltale flush creeping up her neck. She mumbled a greeting, her voice barely a whisper. She looked quickly away.

She had to get out of there. Now.

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