The discovery happened late at night. Leo was pacing, unable to sleep in his new house. He'd decided to explore, and he found the door behind a bookshelf in the guest room. The old wallpaper was peeling, and the smell that came from behind it was awful, but he forced himself to enter.

He felt the blood drain from his face. His mouth went dry. His vision swam.

The room was filled with mirrors. They lined the walls, reflecting his image back at him a hundred times. He was trapped. He tried to speak but his voice was gone. The mirrors reflected more than just him.

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